{"id":162071,"date":"2025-06-06T04:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162071\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T04:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:55:14","slug":"nsw-gamblers-losing-24-million-on-pokies-every-day-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162071\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW gamblers losing $24 million on pokies every day: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G\ufeffamblers in NSW are losing a staggering $24 million to poker machines every day, says a charity advocating beefed-up regulations on pokies.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Mission crunched the numbers from state government gambling figures and found poker machine losses skyrocketed to $2.17 billion in the first 90 days of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Communities in western Sydney incurred some of the highest average losses of more than $3200 per person annually.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ea9da078-2008-4425-9115-bd46274ca367.jpeg\"   alt=\"More details are emerging about the NSW premier's plan for cashless cards to be used in pokies.\"\/>NSW gamblers have lost $2.17 billion to poker machines in the first 90 days of this year, according to new research. (Edwina Pickles)<\/p>\n<p>The charity group says the results of its analysis shows the NSW government \ufeffis failing to protect people from serious gambling harm.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Mission chief executive Rev Stu Cameron says it is &#8220;morally indefensible&#8221; that the gambling industry continues to wield influence over policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government is still bending to the will of powerful clubs and hotel groups while everyday people and families are being financially and emotionally crushed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the epitome of policy paralysis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says the new figures do not capture the wider impact of a person&#8217;s gambling addiction on other family members, including young children. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/348fc834-e929-4789-b76e-798890898bf7.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Some of the heaviest gambling losses were recorded in western Sydney suburbs  (James Brickwood) (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>The government introduced a number of gambling reforms in 2023, including \ufefflowering the cap on gaming machine entitlements, a reduction in cash input limits on new poker machines from $5000 to $500 as well as the ban on external gambling signs.<\/p>\n<p>But Cameron says regulations needs to go further.<\/p>\n<p>He is pushing for a move to a cashless gaming \ufeffsystem and reduced operating hours for gambling rooms would cut losses.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron is calling for gaming rooms to hold a curfew between midnight and 10am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are not radical ideas \u2014 they are basic public health protections,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"G\ufeffamblers in NSW are losing a staggering $24 million to poker machines every day, says a charity advocating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-162071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114634642171772785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}