‘Reform is essential to not only have a dramatic impact on money laundering but also significantly reduce gambling harm.’‘Reform is essential to not only have a dramatic impact on money laundering but also significantly reduce gambling harm.’Last modified on Tue 17 Jan 2023 05.23 GMT
This unelected industry has wielded obscene power on Macquarie Street, Sydney’s home of the NSW parliament, acting like a shadow cabinet of its own.This is evidenced by Chris Minns’s announcement of Labor’sOn the surface some of Labor’s policies seem to have merit, but dig deeper and you realise they lack real substance. That’s because they don’t commit to the reform that matters most and which Dominic Perrottet has already proposed:that requires pre-commitment to a spending limit.
This reform is essential to not only have a dramatic impact on money laundering but also significantly reduce gambling harm, the worst of which occurs in the most stressed areas of NSW and to the people and communities that Labor is supposed to represent.Why don’t Labor support this?
And who owns most of Australia’s Pokies? Woolies and Coles!
It’s not just the pokies, turn on the radio or tv and prepare to be assaulted by the gambling ads! The whole industry needs to be reformed.