2024-09-03
An ACT Greens motion calling on the Labor party to sever its ties to pokies and donate its pokies-seeded investment capital to the Alliance for Gambling reform has passed the ACT Assembly.
“The Labor Party is impossibly compromised on gambling policy,” said Andrew Braddock, ACT Greens MLA for Yerrabi.
“Today, the quiet part has now been said out loud.
“The Greens introduced the motion because the ACT Labor Party has avoided, delayed, and ultimately rejected best-practice gambling reforms that were presented to it through the term of the Assembly.
"The Labor Party has blocked positive gambling reforms in the ACT and let down the community and we must ask, what is preventing them from taking the action that all the advocates and experts are calling for?
“The ACT Greens endeavour to work closely with Labor to achieve progressive outcomes for the community, but we are forced to call out Labor's significant, entrenched failure on the issue of gambling reform.”
“The Greens will continue to stand with gambling harm minimisation advocates, and push for the implementation of best-practice reforms", said Mr Braddock.