New pokie restrictions to be introduced in Victoria including maximum spend limits of $100

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New pokie restrictions to be introduced in Victoria including maximum spend limits of $100 - Lemmy.world

Premier Daniel Andrews said the changes would give Victoria the toughest electronic gambling restrictions in Australia.

Tas is limiting our cashless gambling card to $100 per day, $500 per month and a soft cap of $5,000 per year. I’d say you gotta try harder, Dan. You can tell it’ll be effective because the hospitality and gaming industries are big mad about it.

This sounds like a great idea.

Is there anything in place to stop people having multiple cashless gambling cards?

The cards are ostensibly tied to your identity so I guess the penalties for fraud and/or identity theft is a barrier to having multiple cards. There is supposed to be a guest card system for out-of-state gamblers but those have an expiry date.