{"id":17480,"date":"2021-05-03T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17480"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:52:57","slug":"australia-record-daily-losses-on-pokies-in-brimbank-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-record-daily-losses-on-pokies-in-brimbank-victoria","title":{"rendered":"Australia: record daily losses on pokies in Brimbank, Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Punters have spent a record amount on pokies in Brimbank, Victoria, since venues reopened after Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- The city of Brimbank, in western Melbourne, Victoria, has recorded record player losses<\/strong> on pokies since operations resumed following Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December set a new record for monthly player losses at AU$14.7m, followed by AU$13.8m<\/strong> in January, March saw losses of AU$14.6m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, February saw a new new record for daily losses at AU$482,168<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to ABC newspaper, Ranka Rasic<\/strong>, Brimbank’s mayor, said that total losses for the past decade stood at AU$1.4bn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Alliance for Gambling Reform <\/strong>has urged the state government to reduce pokie operating hours noting that Victorian machine venues had the longest opening hours in Australia at 20 hours a day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, the Victorian government<\/a> announced it would invest AU$600,000 (US$460,000) through the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation<\/strong> to examine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state of Victoria reported that losses to online bookmakers<\/a> <\/strong>rose to over AU$1.4bn (US$1.07bn)<\/strong> in the second half of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Punters have spent a record amount on pokies in Brimbank, Victoria, since venues reopened after Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Brimbank, Victoria, has reported record player losses on pokies since venues reopened post-COVID, with December 2021 setting a new monthly high of AU$14.7m. This surge has prompted the Alliance for Gambling Reform to advocate for reduced operating hours, citing Victoria's 20-hour daily machine availability. Concurrently, the Victorian government is investing AU$600,000 into research on the pandemic's impact on gambling, amidst a reported AU$1.4bn rise in online betting losses in H2 2020.","focusai_entities":"Ranka Rasic, Alliance for Gambling Reform, Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation","focusai_location":"Brimbank, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.97), product_ux (0.75), investor_analyst (0.92), supplier_vendor (0.78), journalist_researcher (0.99)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Interventions Impact?","query":"What specific regulatory interventions, beyond reduced operating hours, are being considered by the Victorian government to mitigate escalating player losses and enhance governance frameworks?"},{"label":"Operator GGR\/NGR Impact?","query":"How might the proposed reduction in pokie operating hours impact the GGR and NGR of licensed operators in Victoria, and what are the potential flow-on effects for B2B suppliers of gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","category-slider-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17558,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17480\/revisions\/17558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}