current Liberal government in Tasmania<\/a> has confirmed that it will allow poker machines to remain in the state should the party win the upcoming elections, which are expected to be held in March.<\/p>\n\u201cWe fundamentally believe that Tasmanians should be able to exercise choice and to participate in gambling activities in its various forms,\u201d said Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman.<\/p>\n
However, the Liberal policy may still pose challenges to the Federal Group. The current government has vowed to end the operator\u2019s monopoly, allowing individual venues to obtain licenses to operate poker machines after the current agreement ends in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Liberal proposal would also include putting a cap on the number of pokies allowed in pubs and clubs, with a maximum of 2,350 allowed throughout the state.<\/p>\n
More money would be assigned to minimizing the harmful impacts of gaming, and both venues and the state government would take larger shares of the revenues derived from poker machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While Labor politicians in Tasmania are pinning their electoral hopes on a bold plan to remove pokies (slot machines) from all pubs and clubs in the state by 2023, one of Australia\u2019s major gambling operators is campaigning against the plan. The Federal Group, which owns a license that gives them a monopoly on gaming in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":67802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Federal Group Campaigning Against Tasmanian Poker Machine Removal Plan<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n