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NSW Liberal Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane and Federal Liberal Opposition Leader Sussan Ley arrive at the NSW Liberal State Council Meeting in Sydney on Saturday.

Coalition casts doubt on Perrottet’s signature gambling policy

Cashless gaming was a key policy for former Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet in the 2023 election campaign.

  • Alexandra Smith and Harriet Alexander

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The Wentworth Hotel in Homebush West is the second most profitable hotel in NSW by gambling revenue.

‘Extremely serious’: Billionaire’s pub among Sydney venues found flouting laws

A Wynyard hotel allowed patrons to play poker machines during a shutdown period, a Paddington hotel disconnected three pokies from the tax calculator and the second most profitable hotel in NSW allowed its patrons to withdraw cash on credit.

  • Harriet Alexander
The Gold Coast venue operates with a suspended licence and under the guidance of a special manager.

Queensland defers Star’s Gold Coast licence suspension decision

The state government noted remediation progress at the troubled gaming operator had been slower than expected.

  • James Hall
Poker machines at Bankstown Sports Club, the second most profitable club by gaming revenue in NSW.

The mini casinos making a cash bonanza under ‘hardship’ exemptions

The second most profitable club in NSW is benefiting from a historical loophole that allows it to operate its poker machines during the riskiest hours for gambling harm.

  • Harriet Alexander
Poker machine numbers have grown since Labor came to power in NSW.

‘All too cosy’: Crown Melbourne given two-year extension on gambling reform

The casino has been given a further two years to implement a royal commission recommendation to mandate carded play across all gaming.

  • Chip Le Grand
A trial of cashless pokies in Victorian pubs and clubs has been rejected by reform advocates.

Gambling reformers lash out at pokies trial over missing loss limits

Anti-pokies campaigners have dumped their support for a trial of carded-play technology after the government ditched its commitment to include mandatory loss limits.

  • Chip Le Grand
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Gareth Wyatt has seen gambling show up as a factor in homelessness.

Gareth’s podcast experiment helped change lives, but his success will be short-lived

Gambling counselling services, a trade-off for increased machines at a suburban pub, tapped into a vast unmet need. But their funding is about to expire, while the poker machines remain.

  • Harriet Alexander
The RSL is open to selling off its pokies venues.

RSL open to putting pokies in the sale starter’s gate

Melbourne’s big racing bodies could add the RSL’s pokies to their stable.

  • Madeleine Heffernan and Kishor Napier-Raman
Star’s Queen’s Wharf Casino in Brisbane.

Star seals deal to sell Queen’s Wharf casino to HK partners

The gaming giant told the sharemarket it had rescued a deal to sell its Brisbane casino to its Asia partners.

  • Clancy Yeates and Colin Kruger
Mounties faces a multimillion penalty if the money laundering allegations are proven.

Ten suspicious gamblers punted $140m at a Sydney club. No one allegedly noticed

Mounties’ customers wagered $4 billion over a four-year period. But at least $140 million of those bets were placed by customers who should have been flagged as suspicious.

  • Harriet Alexander

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