Commission urges crackdown on problem gambling in Australia
It is one of a raft of harm minimisation measures, including limiting access to ATMs at clubs, in the report released this week.
Australians spend about us$ 18 billion a year gambling, including us$ 12 billion on pokies, the report found. About 15 % of Australians gamble regularly, and problem gamblers make up about 10 % of those. But the share of money that problem gamblers feed into the pokies accounts for around 40 % of us$ 12 billion figure.
The commission said while progress on problem gambling had been made over the past decade, governments could do more to make gaming machines safer. It recommends a limit of us$ 1 per bet on all pokies, to limit the amount people can lose each hour to us$ 120, and a us$ 20 cash limit that a person can put into a poker machine at any given time. It calls for a universal "opt-out" system that allows people to set the amount of money and time they spend gambling.
Cash machines located near pokie machines should only be able to distribute a maximum of us$ 200 per card per day and all prize money should be paid in cheques not cash, the report says. The commission wants the restrictions in place by 2016.
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