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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Problem Gambling

The Hon. C. BONAROS (14:46): Supplementary: can the minister advise how much gambling losses on poker machines increased from the March lockdown period until the subsequent opening of pubs and clubs with poker machines?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:46): I thank the honourable member for that supplementary. I think that information may well be with Treasury, but we will see which portfolio that sits with, where we can obtain that from. As I think was recently highlighted publicly through the particular budget amount, which I have just provided, the funding through poker machines actually reduced during COVID.

That is why the community support fund, which the Treasurer manages, has provided the additional funding so that it could substitute the money that was not going into the fund from pokies, but I understand that since the restrictions were lifted in the first round people certainly went back into venues. So we will find that information for the honourable member and bring back a response.

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