{"id":777003686,"date":"2023-03-24T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777003686"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:26:04","slug":"labor-candidate-proposes-cashless-gambling-trial-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/labor-candidate-proposes-cashless-gambling-trial-in-sydney","title":{"rendered":"Labor candidate proposes cashless gambling trial in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Australian Labor party has suggested that cashless gambling should be trialled in Sydney\u2019s western suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Labor’s candidate for South Coast, Liza Butler<\/strong>, has proposed the implementation of a cashless gambling trial in western Sydney before expanding it to other regions in New South Wales. She made the comments during a “meet the candidates” event at Husky Sports in Huskisson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler highlighted that the cultural groups in western Sydney were more prone to gambling problems and that rolling out cashless gambling to these areas first would enable them to self-regulate and prevent problem gamblers from moving to online platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, premier Dominic Perrottet<\/strong> pledged that all gambling machines<\/a> in New South Wales would become cashless by 2028 if the coalition government was re-elected in March. However, NSW Labor wants a trial of 500 machines<\/a> to ensure the technology is effective and doesn’t have unintended consequences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Minns<\/strong>, Labor’s leader, has previously said he would use the advice of an independent committee to decide the best places to host the trial. However, the top three local government areas with the highest poker machine losses in 2022 were all in southwestern Sydney<\/a>, with Canterbury Bankstown, Fairfield, and Cumberland topping the list. The Shoalhaven LGA, which covers a large part of the South Coast state electorate, recorded the sixth-highest poker machine losses in regional NSW. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NSW Crime Commission<\/a> recommended the introduction of a cashless card to prevent money laundering through poker machines after concluding that criminals were \u201cfunnelling billions of dollars of \u2018dirty\u2019 cash through poker machines\u201d in pubs and clubs every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Butler told The Sydney Morning Herald that money laundering was extremely rare. She also said the government should take action against pubs that displayed VIP signage outside their premises, which she said was illegal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian Labor party has suggested that cashless gambling should be trialled in Sydney\u2019s western suburbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21504,"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 Labor party has proposed a cashless gambling trial in Western Sydney, New South Wales, targeting 500 poker machines to assess technology efficacy and mitigate problem gambling among vulnerable cultural groups. This initiative contrasts with the previous government's broader 2028 cashless mandate and is partly driven by NSW Crime Commission concerns over money laundering, though a Labor candidate downplays this aspect. The proposal highlights ongoing regulatory scrutiny and potential shifts in gaming vertical operational frameworks.","focusai_entities":"Australian Labor party, Liza Butler, Dominic Perrottet, Chris Minns, NSW Crime Commission, Husky Sports, The Sydney Morning Herald","focusai_location":"Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Huskisson, Canterbury Bankstown, Fairfield, Cumberland, Shoalhaven","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Trial Scope & Tech","query":"What specific technological and operational challenges are anticipated for B2C operators during the proposed 500-machine cashless gambling trial, and how will data on player behavior and GGR impact be collected and analyzed?"},{"label":"AML Efficacy","query":"Given the NSW Crime Commission's findings on money laundering, what specific AML governance frameworks will be integrated into the cashless trial to ensure transaction integrity and prevent illicit fund flows, and how will their efficacy be measured?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777003686","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\/777003686","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=777003686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003701,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003686\/revisions\/777003701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}