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Trial finds cashless gaming makes little difference to gambling behaviour on pokies (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short: One of the first cashless gaming trials in NSW found the technology made little difference to the behaviour of gamblers.

The Wests New Lambton trial has received criticism from gambling reform advocates, who say it did not include a card with binding and default limits.

What's next?: The Independent Panel on Gaming Reform will provide findings from an expanded statewide cashless gaming trial.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nah, get rid of cash for the pokies. It alone won't help with harm reduction but the pokies are one of the most common ways to launder money in this country. People use the resources taxes buy and should be paying their fair share.

We also need cashless gaming cards with default and settable hard limits with restrictions on when you can change it to help combat the addictions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I get it.

But I reckon the real tax cheats.- sorry, I mean tax minimisation! - aren't the ones putting cash through pokies. They are using companies, discretionary trusts etc and various tax jurisdictions to avoid -oops! I mean minimise!- tax.

Whatever happened as a result of the Pandora Papers? Nothing. Because it's basically all legal and the way the rich evade - oops! I mean minimise!- tax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's both, stopping one doesn't mean you can't stop the othet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@ephemeral_gibbon @No1 I'd rather get rid of the pokies completely

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh absolutely, but an improvement is still good. Pokies are absolutely shit and should be ripped out, but it'll be harder to get that to happen.