House debates

Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Questions without Notice

Gambling

2:20 pm

Photo of Andrew WilkieAndrew Wilkie (Denison, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is specifically to the Prime Minister, because the community wants to hear his answer. Prime Minister, I have just given notice of a private member's bill to combat poker machine problem gambling that would implement the Productivity Commission recommendations of $1 maximum bets and mandatory precommitment. Seeing as problem gamblers lose $5 billion annually and suffer terribly to the parasites in the poker machine industry—something you are on the record as being concerned with—will you support the bill or at least allow a debate on it?

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