Advocacy Resource Hub

Welcome to the Wesley Mission's Advocacy Resource Hub.

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    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

    Mandatory cashless gambling card with harm reduction measures

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    Goal 2

    Powering down poker machines between midnight and 10am

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    Goal 3
    A fully-funded, independent state-wide self-exclusion register
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    Goal 4
    Let local communities have a say in local poker machine applications
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    Goal 5

    Publish gambling data venue by venue

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    Community attitudes to gambling survey

     

    October 2023, 2nd edition report can be downloaded here

    Key findings
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    Finding 1
    82.4% of NSW residents support shutting down poker machines from midnight to 10am.
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    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.
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    Finding 3

    Community faith in the government taking action to achieve reform has worsened from April (1st edition)....

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