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SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited ( SkyCity ) today announced its results for the six months ended 31 December 2023. Key highlights are: Earnings performance resilient - 1H24 underlying Group EBITDA of $146.3 million despite the challenging economic ...

A new study from Roy Morgan Research shows a significant link between late-night poker machine gamblers and problematic gambling behaviour.

Consumers in New South Wales who gamble on poker machines late at night are more likely to suffer from problem gambling, according to a study.

Cost-of-living pressures, disadvantage and ‘oversaturation’ of machines in the region leading to higher levels of gambling-related harm, researchers say

NSW Crime Commissioner Michael Barnes says a mandatory cashless gaming card will only threaten the viability of pubs and clubs if their business model is predicated on the proceeds of crime.

The landmark findings of Project Islington calling for the introduction of mandatory cashless gaming cards will send shockwaves through Australia’s gaming sector.

This thesis investigates poker-machine gambling and gambling harms in New South Wales Australia. In this research I examine the social, technological, institutional, political and environmental arrangements which constitute Electronic Gaming Machine (commonly known as “poker-machine”) gambling. Through exploring gambling practices, discourses and policies, the study illuminates how gambling arrangements contribute to the phenomena of problem gambling and gambling harms. Despite several inqui...

With more than $89 million lost to the pokies alone in Greater Geelong during 2019/20, the community is being called on to consider a draft policy