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Gambling’s $160m hit

Gambling’s $160m hit

Mercury Newspaper | July 2, 2021Report shines spotlight on controversial industryPROBLEM gambling costs the Tasmanian community up to $160m each year, although the true extent of the social and economic damage is impossible to measure, a new report has found.Gambling...

Media Release – SEIS – No Clean Bill of Health

Media Release – SEIS – No Clean Bill of Health

Media Release | July 1, 2021Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said the 5th Social & Economic Impact Study (SEIS) on gambling in Tasmania is not a cleanbill of health for the Gutwein Liberal Government.“Gambling expenditure remains high and appears to now be...

Media Release – Early Election and Gaming Donations

Media Release – Early Election and Gaming Donations

 Media Release | March 26, 2021   Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Gutwein State Government and all Tasmanian political parties to rule out donations from gaming interests if an early election is called.“In the past week we have seen major...

Tasmanian gambling reform a sticking point between profit and purpose

Tasmanian gambling reform a sticking point between profit and purpose

Brinley Duggan | Examiner Newspaper | February 6, 2021    The future of gaming in Tasmania has sent stakeholders into a spin.The state government's future gaming policy was released for comment in February last year.The policy proposed limiting the number of pokies in...

Fresh spin on pokies

Fresh spin on pokies

David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | February 3, 2021   Resumption of reform process draws renewed flakCHANGES to Tasmania’s controversial gaming machine regulations are back on the agenda.Key elements of the reform process include allowing pubs and clubs to own and...

Media Release – Future Gaming Markets

Media Release – Future Gaming Markets

Media Release | February 2, 2021    Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Gutwein Liberal Government to respond to the multitude of unanswered questions raised in submissions to its own Future Gaming Market (FGM) legislation.“The Gutwein...

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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