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Talking Point-Pollies Under Pressure to Abandon Pokies Card Reform

Talking Point-Pollies Under Pressure to Abandon Pokies Card Reform

Talking Point | The Mercury | 23 October 2024; pg 14-15 Pollies Under Pressure to Abandon Pokies Card ReformThe Grip Of The Pokies Industry On Both Major Parties Means Tasmanians Are The Big Losers, writes Meg WebbIn a column on these pages in May this year, I warned...

Article-Anti-pokies MPs slam new delay

Article-Anti-pokies MPs slam new delay

The Mercury | 18 October 2024; pg 8-9.Anti-pokies MPs slam new delayDavid Killick  Anti-pokies MPs say the state government is watering down its gambling reforms at the bidding of the pokies barons but the industry has countered with claims a card-based scheme could...

Media Release: Premier Prepares to Break Pokies Election Promise

Media Release: Premier Prepares to Break Pokies Election Promise

Premier Prepares to Break Pokies Election PromiseThursday, 17 October 2024Independent member for Nelson Meg Webb MLC has slammed revelations the Rockliff Liberal Government has commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to review the impacts of the promised mandatory...

Submission: TLGC Player Card and Cashless Gaming Consultation Paper 2024

Article-How much should you lose on pokies?

The Examiner | 21 September 2024; pg 6.How much should you lose on pokies?Limiting Losses: People addicted to gambling and their families urged to speak Isabel Bird  INDIVIDUALS who are addicted to poker machines are being urged to have their say on the system that...

7 Nightly News Report – Mandatory Pokies Player Card Proposal

7 Nightly News Report – Mandatory Pokies Player Card Proposal

Watch the 7 Nightly News TV report of Friday 20 September 2024, during which Meg comments on the call for people impacted by pokies to have their say on their new mandatory pokies player card proposal which is currently open for public consultation.  

While pokies were closed
due to COVID-19
Tasmanians saved

Poker machines were closed in Tasmania on March 23, 2020
and reopened on June 26, 2020.
In 2018-19 Tasmanians lost $171,603,745 to poker machines

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