{"id":34997,"date":"2022-11-01T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=34997"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:23:14","slug":"nsw-puts-off-cashless-gambling-cards-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nsw-puts-off-cashless-gambling-cards-proposal","title":{"rendered":"NSW puts off cashless gambling cards proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Legislation doesn&#8217;t include the cashless gaming card proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- The New South Wales government seems to have decided to avoid the controversy over mandatory cashless gambling cards. <strong>Kevin Anderson<\/strong>, minister for hospitality and racing, has introduced legislation focusing on administrative changes and the use of facial recognition technology in clubs, but it doesn&#8217;t include the cashless gaming card proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move&nbsp;had been proposed by the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nsw-crime-commission-criminals-funnel-billions-of-dollars-through-pokies\" target=\"_blank\">New South Wales Crime Commission<\/a>&nbsp;(NSWCC) after its report into&nbsp;<strong>money laundering<\/strong>. Sydney independent MP<strong>&nbsp;Alex Greenwich<\/strong> has been pushing the proposal and Prime minister&nbsp;<strong>Dominic Perrottet<\/strong>&nbsp;has agreed to study the proposal but promised to consult with the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <strong>Chris Minns<\/strong>, leader of the NSW Labor Party,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nsw-labor-leader-wont-commit-to-cashless-gambling-cards-proposal\" target=\"_blank\">refused to commit to the proposal<\/a>&nbsp;noting that ClubsNSW claimed adopting the technology would cost AU$1.8bn and lead to thousands of job losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nsw-to-roll-out-facial-recognition-technology-in-pubs-and-clubs\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSW to roll out facial recognition technology in pubs and clubs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Legislation doesn&#8217;t include the cashless gaming card proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14929,"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 government has opted against implementing a mandatory cashless gaming card, a proposal stemming from money laundering concerns, in its latest legislative amendments. Instead, the focus is on administrative changes and the deployment of facial recognition technology in clubs. This decision follows significant industry opposition regarding the projected AU$1.8bn cost and potential job losses.","focusai_entities":"Kevin Anderson, New South Wales Crime Commission, NSWCC, Alex Greenwich, Dominic Perrottet, Chris Minns, ClubsNSW, NSW Labor Party","focusai_location":"Australia, New South Wales, Sydney","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), product_ux (0.75), tech_data (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Facial Recognition Efficacy","query":"What are the specific governance frameworks and data privacy protocols being established to ensure the ethical and compliant deployment of facial recognition technology in NSW gaming venues?"},{"label":"Future Cashless Prospects","query":"Given the industry's cost concerns, what alternative, less capital-intensive solutions are being considered by the NSW government to address money laundering risks in gaming, should the facial recognition initiative prove insufficient?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-34997","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\/34997","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=34997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35012,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34997\/revisions\/35012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}