GAMBLING HARM MINIMISATION
NSW has a big gambling problem.
In 2025, a whopping $9.3 billion was lost to pokies in NSW, the highest ever and an 8% increase on the previous year. This is money that’s not going into communities, small businesses and family budgets and it is increasing housing insecurity, homelessness, crime, family breakdown, domestic violence, unemployment, bankruptcy and suicide.
There are almost 88,000 poker machines in pubs and clubs across NSW. The scale of this addiction economy is staggering and the NSW Labor Government is doing nothing to stop it.
We need to urgently reduce gambling harm by mandating cashless gambling cards, ending the special treatment for clubs in the form of lower taxes and concessions, incentivising venues to be pokies free and phasing out pokies pubs and clubs by 2035.