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Record poker machine losses expose Minns Government's gambling reform failure

New figures showing NSW residents lost a record $4.75 billion on poker machines in just six months are more proof that the Minns Labor Government has gone soft on tackling gambling harm, says Greens MP and gambling harm reduction spokesperson Cate Faehrmann. 

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Permanent drug checking welcome but community services will save more lives

Almost eight years after the summer of 2018-19 where six young people tragically lost their lives to drug overdoses at NSW music festivals, the announcement today that the Minns Government will provide pill testing services at music festivals permanently is welcome but long overdue, Greens MP and drug harm reduction...

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Drug checking trial a success, now make it permanent

Greens MP and drug law reform & harm reduction spokesperson Cate Faehrmann is calling on the Minns Government to make drug checking at music festivals permanent and expand it into other sites in the community following the release of the New South Wales Music Festival Drug Checking Trial: Final Report 

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Labor's voluntary card-based gaming fails the test to reduce harm and money laundering

The Minns Government’s gaming reform package announced today fails the test when it comes to genuine poker machine reform: tackling money laundering and reducing the skyrocketing and increasing rates at which people are losing money to poker machines in NSW, says Greens MP and gambling harm minimisation spokesperson Cate Faehrmann. 

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Government must step in with urgent funding package for Divine Playhouse organisers

The 24 Hour Economy Commissioner, Mike Rodrigues, must step in and throw his and his agency’s resources behind the organisers of Divine Playhouse to find them another venue after they were forced to close as a result of a vicious and coordinated campaign by far-right religious extremists.

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Minns Government must defend Divine Playhouse and LGBTQIA+ community against coordinated attacks

The Minister for Music and Night-time Economy John Graham must publicly defend Divine Playhouse, its organisers, staff, artists and patrons from a coordinated campaign of attacks by conservative media commentators and right-wing Christian activists, says Cate Faehrmann Greens MLC and music and arts spokesperson.

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Lead Still Polluting Kid’s Blood in Broken Hill Latest Report Confirms

NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann has condemned the Minns Government's response to the ongoing lead crisis in Broken Hill, after the latest Lead Program Annual Report revealed that more than one-third of young children in the city still have elevated blood lead levels and Aboriginal children continue to bear the...

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NSW Budget locks in pokies misery with more subsidies to clubs and even more pokies losses forecast - media release

The Minns Government has knocked any hope of gambling reform on the head in today’s state budget with tax concessions to clubs with poker machines totalling $1.252 billion, while revenue from taxes on poker machine losses having to be revised upward by a whopping $638.2 million over the forward estimates.

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New data proves Minns too close to gambling lobby to care about rising harm from pokies

Greens MP and gambling harm reduction spokesperson Cate Faehrmann has accused Chris Minns of being so close to the gambling industry that he is blind to the growing social and economic costs of New South Wales’ pokies addiction, with the quarterly gambling data showing a record $2.37 billion lost in...

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Premier Minns throws live music under the bus

NSW Premier Chris Minns’ yesterday attack on a modest proposal to support small music festivals pits communities against each other in a divisive, dog-whistle statement that should alarm anyone who cares about live music in this state, says Greens MP and music and night-time economy spokesperson, Cate Faehrmann.

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