LIBERALS CAN TACKLE GAMBLING ADDICTION: BACK A $1 BET LIMIT

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed the Federal Liberal Party’s newfound concern for the victims of gambling addiction, and urged the State Liberals to support upcoming legislation to reduce the impact of poker machine addiction in Tasmania.
Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP said Tony Abbott’s call to ban live betting during televised [...]

May 6, 2013

NO MORE EXCUSES ON STATE-BASED POKIES REFORM

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today said Labor and Liberal had now run out of excuses for delaying a state-based $1 bet limit on poker machines, with the ACT pre-commitment trial delayed indefinitely and claims of ‘sovereign risk’ now completely debunked.
In the House of Assembly today, Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth questioned the [...]

March 6, 2013

TIME TO REVIEW FEDERAL’S SWEETHEART POKIES DEAL

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Labor Party to review the deed agreement granting Federal Hotels a monopoly pokies licence, in light of the company’s decision to walk away from the lease for the West Coast Wilderness Railway.
Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP said although Minister Scott Bacon had recently [...]

February 12, 2013

POKIES LOSSES HIGHLIGHT URGENT NEED FOR $1 BET LIMIT: Call for Liberal/Labor to Support Greens Bill

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today said the latest monthly in arrears poker machine loss figures for Tasmania showed losses increased by more than half a million dollars in December last year, bringing the total for 2012 to just under $200 million.
Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP said the figures should put pressure [...]

February 1, 2013

GREENS CALL FOR BAN ON POKIES HEADPHONE OUTLETS

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens called on Treasurer Lara Giddings to commit to a ban on gaming machines with plug in headphones, in line with similar moves by the Victorian Government.
Backing calls today from anti-pokies campaigners for a national ban, Tasmanian Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP said the technology would cause even [...]

December 3, 2012

WHAT A DISGRACE… LIBERAL PARTY BACKFLIPS ON $1 POKIE BET LIMIT: Greens Dissent from Pokies Committee Report

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today condemned the Liberal Party for its backflip on a $1 bet limit on poker machines, following the handing down of a report by the Parliamentary Select Committee examining the issue.
Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP, who today issued a dissenting report, said that the Labor and Liberal [...]

November 21, 2012

$15.7 MILLION LOST ON THE POKIES IN SEPTEMBER

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today said that Tasmanians collectively lost $15,778,711 on pokies in the month of September, yet another unacceptable hit to the community’s most vulnerable that takes the toll for the year to $133,868,205.
Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP said the Gaming Commission figures published on the Treasury and Finance [...]

November 1, 2012

POKIE FACTS DEMAND POLITICAL ACTION

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today highlighted the ongoing work undertaken by the Tasmanian Council of Social Service and Anglicare on pokies and problem gambling, and warned both Labor and Liberal parties that the issue will not go away.
Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP congratulated Anglicare and TasCOSS for hosting a public forum [...]

October 17, 2012

ANTI-POVERTY WEEK A REMINDER POKIES ACTION IS URGENTLY NEEDED

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens congratulated Anglicare and TasCOSS for hosting a public forum today on the impact of gambling problems on low-income and disadvantaged Tasmanians.
Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP raised in Parliament that the forum was being held, saying that it is very timely during Anti-poverty week that the community is [...]

October 16, 2012

FLATLINING POKIE LOSSES ARE NOTHING TO CELEBRATE

Kim Booth MP
Greens Gaming Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Labor and Liberal parties to support the Greens’ push to end the epidemic of social harm inflicted by poker machines, in light of the latest monthly figures on gaming machine losses.
Greens Gaming spokesperson Kim Booth MP said the Gaming Commission figures published on the [...]

October 2, 2012