Victoria’s powerful clubs lobby wants compensation for pubs, clubs and RSLs over the Andrews government’s decision to introduce restrictions on poker machines.
Lloyd said he was disappointed by the Andrews government and had been told of the expanded changes only on Sunday morning when Horne called him moments before the announcement.“We have had the approach we want to work with the government. With the recent changes happening at Crown, we thought the government would have watched and analysed how it was working and taken learnings from that,” he said.
Long-time anti-pokies campaigner and City of Manningham councillor Stephen Mayne said there was some argument that the state government should reimburse licence fees or offer an exit opportunity for operators.“[But] that’s the only argument the clubs and pubs have against long-overdue reforms to deal with record-high losses in the world’s most gambling-captured country,” he said.
“I hope that the sector will be on board with those efforts to improve the lives of the poor people who have found themselves in this terrible situation,” she said. Under the changes, gaming venues will be required to introduce a mandatory pre-commitment system for all poker machines, which will force players to use a card to sign in and set loss limits. The maximum amount of money a player can feed into a machine in one go will drop to $100, down from $1000.
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