The Australian Capital Territory has launched a new advisory council on gambling harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.- The Australian Capital Territory <\/strong>has launched a new advisory council to inform gambling harm reduction initiatives<\/strong> and build a long-term and sustainable club sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Australian Capital Territory Community Clubs Ministerial Advisory Council will include representatives from community clubs<\/strong>, organisations that work to reduce gambling harm, and union stakeholders. It will be chaired by Minister for Gaming Shane Rattenbury<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The advisory council seeks to reduce gaming machine licences to 3,500 and introduce AU$5 (US$3.89) bet limits<\/strong>. It will also run a self-exclusion scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rattenbury said: “We want to ensure clubs continue to support the community while introducing and strictly enforcing measures to further reduce harm from gaming<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The advisory council will hold regular meetings, with the first to be held tomorrow (May 26).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Capital Territory has launched a new advisory council on gambling harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Australian Capital Territory has established a new advisory council focused on gambling harm reduction and the long-term sustainability of its club sector. Chaired by Minister for Gaming Shane Rattenbury, the council will inform initiatives such as reducing gaming machine licenses to 3,500, implementing AU$5 bet limits, and operating a self-exclusion scheme. Its mandate is to balance community club support with stricter measures to mitigate gaming-related harm.","focusai_entities":"Australian Capital Territory Community Clubs Ministerial Advisory Council, Shane Rattenbury","focusai_location":"Australia, Australian Capital Territory","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.95), product_ux (0.75), tech_data (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Club Sector","query":"What specific economic impact assessments have been conducted regarding the proposed reduction of gaming machine licenses to 3,500 on the financial viability and community contributions of ACT clubs?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent","query":"How might the ACT's proposed AU$5 bet limits and enhanced self-exclusion scheme influence similar regulatory discussions or policy implementations in other Australian states or international jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-18238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238","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=18238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18272,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions\/18272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}