{"id":777007375,"date":"2023-07-18T07:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777007375"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:57:54","slug":"agr-welcomes-victorias-new-limits-on-pokies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agr-welcomes-victorias-new-limits-on-pokies","title":{"rendered":"AGR welcomes Victoria&#8217;s new limits on pokies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Alliance for Gambling Reform is calling on New South Wales take a similar path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- The Alliance for Gambling Reform (AGR) has praised the Victorian government&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/victoria-to-introduce-new-limits-on-pokies\" target=\"_blank\">reforms for the electronic gambling industry<\/a>. <strong>Tim Costello<\/strong>, chief advocate for the AGR said the introduction of mandatory carded play with load-up limits of AU$100 (US$68.31) was a crucial step in curbing gambling-related issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Costello said: &#8220;We still need to see all of the details, but this will go a long way towards minimising gambling harm in our community as well as reducing the huge amounts of dirty money being laundered through poker machines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other new measures will see all venues with machines except Crown Casino mandated to close their gaming areas between 4am and 10am. Electronic gaming machines will be slowed down to a spin rate of three seconds per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Costello urged New South Wales to follow suit with a statewide commitment to a mandatory, pre-commitment cashless card. Authorities there have announced the creation of a panel to oversee\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nsw-crime-commission-criminals-funnel-billions-of-dollars-through-pokies\" target=\"_blank\">the state government\u2019s cashless gambling trial<\/a>. It will be led by former New South Wales Liquor, Gaming and Racing commissioner\u00a0<strong>Michael Foggo<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alliance for Gambling Reform is calling on New South Wales take a similar path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10784,"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 Alliance for Gambling Reform has lauded Victoria's new electronic gaming machine reforms, including mandatory carded play with AU$100 load-up limits, restricted venue operating hours, and slower spin rates, citing benefits for harm minimization and AML. The AGR is now urging New South Wales to implement similar statewide cashless pre-commitment measures, as NSW establishes a panel to oversee its cashless gambling trial.","focusai_entities":"Alliance for Gambling Reform, Tim Costello, Crown Casino, Michael Foggo","focusai_location":"Australia, Victoria, New South Wales","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.95), product_ux (0.85), tech_data (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact of Victoria's new mandatory carded play and load-up limits on electronic gaming machine Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for licensed operators?"},{"label":"NSW Cashless Trial Scope?","query":"What specific technological and operational parameters will define the New South Wales cashless gambling trial, and how will its findings inform potential statewide policy adoption?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777007375","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\/777007375","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=777007375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777007375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777007382,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777007375\/revisions\/777007382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777007375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777007375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777007375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}