Mandatory cashless gambling card with harm reduction measures
Welcome to the Wesley Mission's Advocacy Resource Hub.
Resource Hub
Gambling harm affects individuals, families and communities at many levels. To support meaningful change, we’ve created a central hub of resources designed to inform, empower and inspire action.
Here, you’ll find helpful materials such as fact sheets, discussion papers, survey results on community attitudes and social media tiles that explain our campaign goals. These resources are for organisations who wants to learn more about gambling harm and take steps to reduce it.
Our gambling reform goals as social media tiles
Our five 2023-2027 gambling reform goals:
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Goal 1
Goal 2
Powering down poker machines between midnight and 10am
Goal 3
A fully-funded, independent state-wide self-exclusion register
Goal 4
Let local communities have a say in local poker machine applications
Goal 5
Publish gambling data venue by venue
Key findings
Finding 1
82.4% of NSW residents support shutting down poker machines from midnight to 10am.
Finding 2
Between a quarter and a third of people who gamble regularly on poker machines (at least once a month) are now less likely to enter a venue now that there is a ban on signage that promotes poker machines.
Finding 3
Community faith in the government taking action to achieve reform has worsened from April (1st edition)....