Page 4036 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 17 November 2015
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The ACT Government is committed to retaining its withdrawal limit as an important harm minimisation measure.
They say to people in the ACT club sector, “Not agreed.” And so it goes on. Here is another recommendation:
The Committee recommends that there be no net loss of land zoned in the ACT Territory Plan as CFZ.
That is the community zone. The government response was: “Noted.” Recommendation 17 reads:
The Committee recommends that the Government match the clubs sector levy paid to the PGAF—
the problem gambling assistance fund—
dollar for dollar, to fund programs to assist additional research and amelioration of problem gambling.
The response was: “Not agreed.” The government get $33 million a year from the gambling sector, and how much do they put back in? When we last asked it was less than $400,000 that was put directly into addressing problem gambling. They take that and they blame the club sector, and the blame game continues. We do not tell Ford every time there is a road death that they have to run a road safety program, or Toyota or Holden, but when there is a problem gambler it is the club’s problem. And the government takes the money and walks away from it. The government ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Recommendation 18 was that there should be a whole range of studies done. The response was:
Noted.
The government notes the preferred range of … projects …
In recommendation 19, the committee recommended that when the result of each study is received that it be tabled in the Assembly. The response was: “Noted.” They probably will not go ahead, so we will not get those tabled here, members.
Recommendation 21 reads:
The Committee recommends that the Government re‐establish a full Professorial Chair of Gambling Studies at the ANU.
The response was: “Not agreed.” All members of the committee—Liberal, Labor and Greens—agreed to this, but not the government. This is a government that has no commitment to problem gaming and addressing those issues in the ACT. This is a government that is simply committed to its coffers, and it should be ashamed of itself.
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