{"id":31165,"date":"2022-06-27T05:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31165"},"modified":"2022-06-27T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:51:23","slug":"nz-government-to-invest-us47-9m-in-gambling-harm-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nz-government-to-invest-us47-9m-in-gambling-harm-initiatives","title":{"rendered":"NZ Government to invest US$47.9m in gambling harm initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government of New Zealand has announced a NZ$76m (US$47.9m) investment to prevent and minimise gambling harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>New Zealand.- The Labour Government of New Zealand has announced a<strong>\u00a0NZ$76m (US$47.9m) investment<\/strong>\u00a0for a new strategy aimed at preventing and minimising <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kiwibank-customers-spend-au30m-a-month-on-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">gambling harm-related issues<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strategy will be funded by a problem gambling levy paid by non-casino gaming machine operators, casinos, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tab-nz-posts-net-profit-of-au15-3m-for-april\" target=\"_blank\">TAB NZ<\/a>\u00a0and the New Zealand Lotteries Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Training pathways to enable a more skilled and diverse workforce, including more peer and cultural support workers;<\/li><li>New and expanded digital services and supports;<\/li><li>Education initiatives to reduce harm to rangatahi (young people);<\/li><li>A de-stigmatisation initiative to help change the conversation around gambling harm and encourage people to seek help;<\/li><li>Better support for vulnerable communities including M\u0101ori, Pacific, and Asian people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Andre Little<\/strong>, minister of health, said: \u201cThe new funding and strategy aligns our gambling harm prevention and minimisation efforts with the reforms to the health and disability system and the new mental health system we\u2019re building.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jan Tinetti<\/strong>, minister of internal affairs, added: &#8220;Effective regulation of gambling means we can deal with harms including financial problems, relationship problems, family violence, and alcohol abuse.\u00a0&#8220;The new investment and strategy is about showing we\u2019re serious about protecting New Zealand from these harms.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tinetti said the project was developed\u00a0<strong>after a public consultation made in late 2021\u00a0<\/strong>and was co-designed with service providers, community groups, industry bodies and people with lived experience of gambling harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of New Zealand has announced a NZ$76m (US$47.9m) investment to prevent and minimise gambling harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[229,23911],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165"}],"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=31165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31178,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions\/31178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}