Page 4037 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 17 November 2015

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Recommendation 24 reads:

The Committee recommends that all EGM payouts over $800 be paid by cheque or EFT.

The response was: “Noted.” Recommendation 25 reads:

The Committee recommends that the Government pursue, at a national level, maximum $1 per spin and bet rates …

The response was: “Noted.” Where is the commitment? There is no commitment, no leadership and no notion at all from this minister. This minister is a disgrace and she should resign. Recommendation 26 reads:

The Committee recommends that the Government investigate differential tax rates for clubs that have better problem gambling measures in place.

The response was: “Not agreed.” If you do a good job, there is not even a reward here. So why would you do a good job? The government is going to blame you, the government is going to take the funding, and this government under this minister is not going to help you. The government and the minister ought to be ashamed.

It goes on, Madam Assistant Speaker. Recommendation 34 reads:

The Committee recommends that the Government review current Electronic Gaming Machines storage provisions to facilitate removal of Electronic Gaming Machines from club floors with a view to making the reduction permanent.

The response was: “Noted.” We talk about getting machines off the floor and the response is “noted”. There is no commitment at all and no leadership from this minister. In recommendation 35 the committee recommends that the government consider how best to devise a water subsidy scheme for eligible clubs that extends the community WAC subsidy for clubs that invest in water security infrastructure and extends subsidies for water. The response was: “Noted.” Again, if you do the right thing, this is not a government that will reward you. If you do the right thing, this is a government that will continue to tax you, because that is all it is about.

Recommendation 37 reads:

The Committee recommends that the Government fund a study into the cross‐border leakage of ACT gamblers into NSW.

The government response was: “Not agreed.” Aren’t you even vaguely interested, as a government, in how different regimes of gaming and taxation affect what goes on in the ACT? Aren’t you even vaguely interested in actually operating from a position of knowledge about how gaming occurs in the ACT and what leaks over the border, which we have no control over? Apparently not, Madam Assistant Speaker.


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