New Treasury data shows that Tasmanians lost $18.4 million to electronic gaming machines in July 2025 – the largest amount lost in a month since August 2020.
The donations from the pokies industry are once again flowing to Labor and Liberal politicians in an election campaign.
In a damaging new low, the Liberals have now stopped even pretending they’re still looking to implement long-promised harm minimising pre-commitment cards for poker machines.
Mr Ferguson remains committed to mandatory precommitment cards in the public interest. In fact, he has vowed it so. He also reassured the House that the Premier would be, too.
The MaxGaming report provides clear evidence the reform pathway was on track, all that was needed was ministerial approval. But Premier Rockliff caved to the pokies lobby.
The Rockliff Government promised to release their response to the State of the Environment Report and the MaxGaming Report before Christmas.
Jeremy Rockliff’s decision to abandon the mandatory precommitment card for poker machines is sickening.
The Greens warmly welcome a new open letter, signed by a wide variety of advocates and organisations, in support of a comprehensive and mandatory pokies pre-commitment card.
Tasmanian Labor backing a voluntary card, instead of a mandatory one, is a shameful and shocking decision
The Liberal and Labor parties must come clean with any political donations they’ve received from gambling industry interests in the past 18 months.