Media releases

March 2025 marks the half-way point in the Minns’ Government’s four-year term in NSW. However, despite raft of minor gambling reforms introduced by the government, NSW is experiencing record poker...

Shock report show losses growing faster than housing costs Spiraling gambling losses are a bigger drain on the household budget than the cost of electricity and gas while gambling losses are growing...

New South Wales has hit a devastating new low with record high losses hitting a staggering, and arguably avoidable, $8.64 billion for 2024 according to the latest Liquor and Gaming data just...

The people of NSW are experiencing shocking levels of gambling harm, now losing an average of over $1 million to the state’s poker machines every single hour, or just over $24 million a day. This...

Wesley Mission welcomes the release of the Roadmap for Gaming Reform today but is disappointed by some of the watered-down recommendations it contains.

Powering down the pokies and a mandatory cashless card have the overwhelming support of the NSW public, according to the latest Community Attitudes to Gambling Reform Survey conducted by Wesley...

The Federal Government’s ‘each way bet’ approach for a partial ban on sports gambling ads is at odds with the mood of the nation and risks a backlash at the next election, according to a new survey...

An overwhelming 83% of survey respondents want pokies powered down between midnight and 10am and with 72% say they don’t trust the NSW government to stand up to the gambling industry. More than half...

Despite historic and welcome investment in public housing and in addressing domestic and family violence, the budget handed down by the NSW Government this week forecasts a 27% increase in taxes from...

The people of NSW lost $8.129 billion to poker machines in 2023, an increase of $29 million on 2022 and the equivalent of $1000 for every adult and child in the state.

With more than 80 percent (82.4%) of residents supporting a shut-down of the States 89,000 poker machines between midnight and 10am, the NSW Government and the state’s gambling industry face...

With at least one child in every high school classroom suffering or at risk from harm from their own gambling, and sports betting companies set to romp it in with today’s Melbourne Cup, there’s...