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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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GAMING MACHINES

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen) (15:08): My question is to the Minister for Gambling. When will this government introduce legislation aimed at correcting its failed policy to reduce the number of poker machines by 3,000? The draft Gaming Machines (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2008 has been available since September last year. The Liberal Party is aware that former minister Zollo had received feedback on that bill from a number of stakeholders, including the relevant sector and industry groups.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Gambling, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers, Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (15:08): As the member would be aware, when she calls the policy 'failed', there are a number of members in this house—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: —who voted for the $50,000 cap. So, rather than being a failure of the Rann government, perhaps it is a failure of the parliament, and all members who voted for that cap are equally guilty. I am looking directly at one of them.

The truth is that the reduction of poker machines is about harm minimisation. The government has some great programs in place about harm minimisation, and they are through precommitment trials we are running now, which I am sure the member is well aware of. I understand that the Productivity Commission is bringing down a report, from its first report in 1999, in February next year. I think it would be pre-emptive of the government to do anything before that report is tabled.

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