Topics/Focus
Document Findings
1 Problems
Productivity
Commission, 1999,
Australia’s gambling industries:
Inquiry report
(No.
10). Canberra, Australia
PC
1999
2 Problems
Productivity
Commission, 2010,
Gambling. (No. 50). Canberra, Australia
PC
2010
3
Solutions
Wesley Mission’s 2023-27 NSW Gambling Reform Platform to Protect our Communities
- March 2023
CommunityProtection
4 Problems
Liquor & Gaming NSW Govt. ClubGrants Review
- closed 18 March 2024
5 Problems
Big Gambling is playing
with our democracy -
Australian Financial Review -
Elizabeth Baldwin, Kate
Griffiths - Nov 2023
Reducing gambling political
donations
6 Problems
Review of the ClubGRANTS Scheme - Discussion Paper - December 2023
7 Problems
‘Gambling capital of Australia’: Six charts that show the scale of poker machine
use in NSW - SMH - Nov 2022
8 Problems
Regulatory responsibilities of Liquor and Gaming NSW
9 Problems
Gambling participation, experience of harm and community views -
March
2023 -
Australian Gambling Research Centre
10 Problems
Gambling participation and experience of harm in Australia
-
Australian Gambling Research Centre - March 2023
11 Problems
The social cost of gambling to Victoria - Victorian responsible gambling
foundation
- 2017
Summary
12 Problems
The economic and social cost of harms associated with gambling in England
- Jan 2023 -
Office
for Health
Improvement and
Disparities, U.K.
13 Problems
Urgent reform of our gambling
laws is needed. "Our current legislation is outdated and analogue - we need a
new Gambling Act, fit for the digital age." -
APPG Gambling Related Harm
14 Problems
Gambling treatment: assessing the current system in England
– 7 March
2024
15 Problems
Gambling addicts will die because of delay to reforms, government warned
- The Guardian UK - 2023
16 Problems
Gambling white
paper: Young gamblers could face £2 slot machine limit - bbc.com 27 Apr 2023
17 Problems
GOV.UK - White Paper - High stakes: gambling reform for the digital
age - 27 April 2023
18 Problems
The association between gambling and financial, social and health outcomes in
big financial data - Muggleton, Parpart, Newall ,
Leake, Gathergood Stewart - UK - 2021
19 Problems
Using
big financial data to
understand how gambling is associated with financial,
social, and
health outcomes
20 Problems
How gambling problems relate to health and wellbeing in Australian households:
Evidence from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia Survey -
Catherine Tulloch, Nerilee Hing, Matthew Browne, Matthew Rockloff - 2023
21 Problems
Gambling
Harm Experienced
by Children
Exposed to
Parental Gambling: An
Online Survey of Australians -
Aino
Suomi
·
Nina Lucas
· Nicki
Dowling ·
Paul
Delfabbro :
7 May
2023
Various costs incurred
22 Problems
Landmark
report reveals harms associated with gambling estimated to cost society at least
£1.27 billion a year - Public Health England - Sept 21
23 Problems
Major reform of U.K. gambling laws to protect vulnerable users in smartphone era
-
27 April 2023
24 Problems
The U.K. government white
paper’s proposals are limited and lack urgency -
9 May 2023 -
Samantha L Thomas ,
professor of public health , Martin McKee ,
professor of European health , Mike Daube ,
emeritus professor
25
Solution
Gambling disorder in the UK:
key research priorities and the urgent need for independent research funding
- Copyright © 2022
Learn from abroad
26
Solution
Use
of
credit
for
gambling
online - 2023
-
Alliance
for Gambling
Reform Policy
Paper
Recommendations
27 Problems
The rest of
the world is in disbelief at what the gambling industry has pulled off
in Australia. We need real reform
- The Guardian -
Tim Costello -
17 Jan 2023
Pokies
in NSW
28
Solution
Electronic gaming machines: what lessons
from Norway?
Lessons
29
Solution
NSW’s cashless gambling trial expands to include nearly 4,500 poker
machines
Cashless trail
30
Solution
Unions say Minns government must slash pokie numbers in clubs, pubs
Union pressure
30
Solution
Review of Self-exclusion from Gambling Venues as an Intervention for
Problem Gambling
-
Sally M. Gainsbury
-
Self-exclusion
31 Solution
NSW Government Urges Public Input on ClubGRANTS Scheme
Public input
32 Solution
Online self-exclusion from multiple gambling venues: Stakeholder
co-design of a usable and acceptable self-directed website
33 Solution
ClubSAFE Multi Venue Self Exclusion
34 Solution
Do you want to learn more about third-party exclusion? -
Gambling Help On-line
3rd party exclusion
35 Problem
Slot
Machine Payback
Percentages: The
Devil is
in the
Moment
36 Problem
Slot Machines -
Payout
percentage
37 Problem
Slot machines by country -
Australia
38 Solution
Western Australia shows the harm poker machines are doing to the rest of the
country
39 Solution
Queensland gaming regulator urged to consider mandatory pokies preset
spending limit, review underway
Qld initiatives sought
40 Solution
Minns Government lowers poker machine entitlements in NSW, reduces cash
feed-in limit on new machines
NSW improvements
41 Problem
NSW Liquor & Gaming - Six Monthly Gaming Machine
Data -
Last
updated 24 April 2023
*·
Clubs Gaming machine report by LGA (Excel
file) - 1 Dec
2022 – 31 May 2023
* ·
Hotels Gaming machine report by LGA (Excel
file) - 1 Jan
2023 – 30 Jun 2023
42 Solution
Gamblers to be restricted to $100 limits on poker machines in Victoria
as part of new reforms -
ABC News - Jul 2023
Victoria reforms
43 Problem
Gambling in Australia - 7 Sept 2023 -
Australian
institute of Health & Welfare
43 Problem
Gambling in Australia - statistics & facts -
Statista Research Department , Jan
10, 2024
44
Problem
Pokies pub test - December 2017 - Australia
Institute
45 Solution
Excel
spreadsheet listing number of poker machines in licensed clubs and in
hotels in each of Australia's six states
46 Solution
Qld Govt Liquor and Gaming - Number of Poker Machines - 2021
47 Solution
Poker Machine Harm Minimisation Bill 2008
and
ATMs and Cash Facilities in Licensed Venues Bill 2008
48 Solution
Western Australia shows the harm poker machines are doing to the rest of the
country
49 Solution
Pokies legislation passes Tasmania's upper house, on track to become law
and end Federal Group's monopoly
TasmanianLeglislation
50 Solution
Joint
Statement on Poker Machines in Tasmania (2024 Tasmanian State Election)
Joint Statement
51 Solution
ACT Government is proposing to establish a ‘central monitoring system’
to introduce $5 bet and $100 credit limits for poker machines in the ACT
ACT protection
52 Solution
Calls for gambling reform as Australia poker machine losses hit $11.4b
in financial year to 30 June 2022
Vic reforms sought
53
Problem
Betting on a winner - gambling companies political donations
54 Solution
55 Solution
Sought after
changes to controlling and playing poker machines in NSW
to
'inter alia' reduce
NSW
poker machine numbers in line with the average (per capita) of other five
states and two territories
56 Solution
Not just harmless fun’: MP explains
why ‘addictive’ poker machines should be banned -
March
03, 2024
57
Solution
NSW INTRODUCES NEW LAWS TO CURB
GAMBLING HARM PubTic - Jane
Louise 10/07/2024
58
Problem
Perrottet
blasts Carr over pokies legacy after Nazi uniform jibe
59
Problem
A
History of Machine Gambling in the NSW Club Industry: From Community
Benefit to Commercialisation
"Conclusion "
60 Solution
SUPPLEMENTARY SUBMISSION
TO THE INDEPENDENT PRICING AND REGULATORY TRIBUNAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES -
Review of Gambling Harm Minimisation Measures
61
Problem
Understanding the Odds -
Australasian Gaming Council
62
Problem
Gaming Machines (Poker Machines, "Pokies ")
- ‘Return
to Player’ percentage (RTP).
63
Problem
Return to player: how much gaming machines payout -
UK
Gambling Commission
64 Solution
Gambling:- Promoting a
culture of responsibility - INDEPENDENT PRICING AND REGULATORY TRIBUNAL OF NEW SOUTH WALES
- June 2004
65
Problem
Poker
machines - GambleAware - NSW Govt.
66
Problem
Pathological Choice: The Neuroscience of Gambling and Gambling Addiction
- Nov 6;
2013
67
Problem
Designed to deceive: How gambling distorts reality and hooks your brain
- The Conversation - 13 April 2018
68
Problem
Problem gambling: Why
do some people become addicted? - BBC -
3
January 2020
69
Problem
No regrets, says Bob Carr,
despite 'bargain with the devil' on poker machines -
SMH - Michael Koziol & Nigel Gladstone
July 4, 2018
70 Solution
Why
reducing gambling harm is imperative -
SouthSydneyHerald -
Stu Cameron
March 7, 2023
71 Solution
Unions say Minns government must slash pokie
numbers in clubs, pubs
-
SMH -
Alexandra Smith
72
Problem
Three charts on:
Australia’s addiction to poker machines -
The Conversation -
June 27, 2017
73
Problem
REPORT TO GOVERNMENT: INQUIRY INTO
GAMING IN NSW - Nov 1998
74
Problem
CHANGING FORTUNES: PAST, PRESENT AND
FUTURE PERSPECTIVES ON THE MANAGEMENT OF PROBLEM GAMBLING BY NEW SOUTH
WALES REGISTERED CLUBS - March 2000 - Nerilee Hing
75
Problem
Gambling: Promoting a Culture of
Responsibility - Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of
NSW - Final Report - June 2004
75
Problem
INDEPENDENT PANEL FOR GAMBLING
REFORM – CLUBS NSW CONDENSED RESPONSE TO PANEL REPORT
76
Problem
Top 20 Electronic Gaming Machine Clubs in NSW
- June
15, 2021
77 Solution
Gaming
Machines
Bill 2001 - NSW
-
An Act to
provide for the regulation, control and management of gaming machines in
hotels and registered clubs and for related purposes; to amend the
Liquor Act 1982, the Registered Clubs Act 1976, the Casino Control Act
1992 and certain other Acts with respect to gaming machines and other
matters; and for other purposes.
78
Problem
Whether it’s Liberal or Labor, the
people in charge are beholden to the pokies industry
- SMH -
Peter Fitzsimmons - 27 July 25
78a
Problem
Inaction on pokies harm is gambling
with lives
- SMH -
Ken Enderby, Concord - 2 Aug 25
78b
Problem
This man could cull the number of
‘misery machines’ in NSW. But he won’t - SMH -
Peter Fitzsimmons - 3 Aug 25
79 Solution
Poker machine reform - Wesley
Mission website
80 Solution
Auditor General’s Report into the
regulation of gaming machines from 2019 to 2024 - Published: 12 June
2025. Statement by: Minister for Gaming and Racing
81
Problem
NSW
LIQUOR & GAMING -
996 poker machines in NSW CLUBS
- gaming machine data 2025 - 29 August 2025
81a
Problem
NSW
LIQUOR & GAMING -
1145 poker machines in NSW
HOTELS - gaming machine data 2025 - 29 August 2025
81B
Problem
Summary of Four Excel Files
provided in above - NSW LIQUOR & GAMING - Clubs gaming machine data 2025
82 Solution
Pokies giant Mounties taken to
Federal Court over anti-money laundering laws
-
ABC News - Tony
Ibrahim -
30 July 2025
83
Problem
Quarter of poker machines in NSW
clubs could be susceptible to money laundering, agency says
-
ABC News - Tony
Ibrahim -
11 August 2025
84 Solution
AUSTRAC fires warning shot at AML/CTF reporting entities
Hall & Wilcox Lawyers 12 Aug 2025
Langton Clarke
85
Problem
Pokies taking more than $1 million
from NSW gamblers every hour -
ABC NSW - Hannah Ross – 2 Sept 2025
86 Solution
Cost-Benefit of Poker Machines in
NSW Clubs and Pubs
87 Solution
Strong link between gambling
expenditure and crime, new study finds
-
Sept 2024
88
Problem
THE
$80 BILLION COST OF ADDICTION - Turning Point -
KPMG
89
Problem
New analysis reveals the devastating
truth behind Australians’ poker machine losses -
90
Problem
91
Problem
Most gambling losses are from
at-risk gamblers
-
Australia
Institute - July 22, 2025 -
Skye Predavec
92
Problem
NSW Gambling Survey
2024 - Prepared for NSW Responsible Gambling Fund
93
Problem
NT clubs 'whitewashing' pokies
revenue through 'opaque' benefit scheme | ABC NEWS
94
Problem
Mathematics Stage 5 – Lesson 3 –
Poker Machines
95
Problem
Gaming Machines: Facts and Myths
96
Problem
How electronic gambling machines
work EGM structural characteristics - Australian
Institute of Family Studies - Dr Charles Livingstone
97
Problem
Gambling Facts and Myths
-
Gambling Help Qld
98
Problem
NSW government drops plan to remove
9,500 poker machines, saying ‘it would make no difference’
- The Guardian - Henry Belot - 4 March 2025
99
Problem
Central Coast’s poker machine
profit 4th highest in NSW
- CoastNEWS - 8 Sept 2025
100
Problem
Social costs of gambling to Victoria
in 2023 -
Department of Justice and Community Safety Victoria
- June 2025
