Gambling
The ACT Greens want to protect the most vulnerable in our community from the harms caused by gambling. Because no one should lose their livelihood over a bet.
But at the moment, the gambling industry is harming too many Australians and their communities.
Australians lose billions of dollars on gambling each year which is why we need action to put people over gambling machines and the gambling industry.
Putting People before Pokies and Profits
The ACT Greens want to protect the most vulnerable in our community from the harms caused by gambling. Because no one should lose their livelihood over a bet.
But the reality is that gambling causes significant harm to the ACT community. When people suffer losses from gambling it can have lifelong detrimental impacts on their health, their relationships and the wider community.
We will introduce a series of best-practice harm reduction measures that will provide important protections, especially for people using poker machines, which is a key area needing reform in the ACT.
THE ACT GREENS WILL:
- Address the harm caused by pokies by introducing registered gambling cards, mandatory precommitment with default loss and time limits, supporting self exclusion, all linked by a central monitoring system
- Work with and support clubs to transition away from pokies revenue
- Continue to reduce the number of poker machines in Canberra.
- Restrict gambling advertising
- Ban political donations from gambling licence-holders
- Fund a peak gambling harm reduction body
- Strengthen gambling harm protections in law and regulation, and improve the powers of the regulator