The ACT Government has taken several steps to reduce community clubs’ reliance on revenue from gambling machines, including financial incentives for clubs that surrender their machines and funding for clubs to diversify their income sources.Īcross Canberra, there are 3793 authorisations for poker machines as of 2023, compared with 4946 in August 2018. However, Justice and Community Safety Committee chair Peter Cain claimed in his dissenting report that if the bill passed, it would not be economically viable for these emerging areas to have a community club because they depended on revenue from gaming machines to operate. The Inquiry into the Gaming Machine Amendment Bill 2023 handed down its findings to the Assembly with one recommendation: to pass the legislation. But a dissenting report by the committee chair has argued the legislation would cause more harm than good. Photo: File.Ī Legislative Assembly committee has recommended the ACT Government ban the authorisation of poker machine licences in the Molonglo Valley and undeveloped areas of the ACT.
The Territory Government aims to reduce the 3793 authorisations for poker machines across the ACT to 3500 by 2025.
