The NSW Greens party wants to phase pokies out of bars over five years due to the rise in gambling losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.- The New South Wales Greens<\/strong> party has renewed its call to ban gambling machines in Australia. It believes the country can afford to do without an industry worth AU$3.1bn (US$2.21bn) a year. It wants pokies to be phased out from bars within five years and from other venues within 10 years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Greens propose financial support to offset some of the lost revenue. They also want a complete ban on gambling ads on public transport and at sporting events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The call comes after it was revealed that players in Victoria lost nearly AU$1bn<\/a>\u00a0on slots in the past four months. Meanwhile, a\u00a0study by the Australian National University<\/a>\u00a0found that 13.6 per cent of Australian children were exposed to some level of at-risk parental gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Miller, an Australian correspondent for the Washington Post published an article this week detailing the effects of slot machines. In his article, Miller stated: “Australia is home to less than half a percent of the world\u2019s population but has 20 per cent of its pokies.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NSW Greens party wants to phase pokies out of bars over five years due to the rise in gambling losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10787,"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 New South Wales Greens party is advocating for a phased ban on gaming machines in bars and other venues over five to ten years, citing rising gambling losses and societal harm. This proposal, which includes a complete ban on gambling advertisements in public spaces, targets an industry valued at AU$3.1bn annually in Australia. The party suggests financial support to mitigate revenue loss for affected businesses.","focusai_entities":"NSW Greens party, Australian National University, Michael Miller, Washington Post","focusai_location":"Australia, New South Wales, Victoria","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Economic Impact Analysis","query":"What specific economic modelling has the NSW Greens party undertaken to quantify the fiscal impact of phasing out AU$3.1bn in GGR, particularly concerning potential job losses and the proposed financial support mechanisms for affected venues?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent","query":"Given the proposed 5-10 year phase-out timeline, what analogous regulatory precedents exist globally for such a significant market contraction, and what governance frameworks would be required to manage the transition for existing B2C licensees?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,158,23876],"tags":[229,23911,23909],"class_list":["post-29382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-slider-home","category-social-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-slot-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382","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=29382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29391,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382\/revisions\/29391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}