The pokies industry has controlled Tasmanian politicians for decades. After a brief reprieve, they’re moving to take back full control.
The Premier’s backtracking on pokies’ pre-commitment reforms is shown in the ‘phases of the review’ Deloitte Economics is undertaking, despite his refusal to release the TOR.
We now have even more evidence the Liberals have scrapped their promised pokies reforms.
Questioning from the Greens today has revealed Premier and his government are walking away from their promise for a comprehensive mandatory precommitment card for poker machines
Leaked revelations, now confirmed, that Tasmania’s mandatory precommitment card system for poker machines is still at least 18 months away is terrible news and must be met with an urgent harm reduction response from the Rockliff government.
The Tasmanian Greens unequivocally support full implementation of the universal precommitment card for poker machines, with all the features needed to make it effective, and we call on Liberal and Labor parties to do the same. Pokies do deep harm to our community,...
Mr Winter had a lot to say about the Greens, and how clutching and confused he sounded.
Rebecca White’s weasel words on poker machines simply won’t wash with a Tasmanian public that overwhelmingly agrees with strong action to limit gambling harm
The Greens applaud RSL Tasmania’s decision to remove pokies from all RSLs.
Are you able to update the committee on whether there is gaming on the machines at the moment, who the operator is and what the plan is going forward?