{"id":32358,"date":"2025-04-17T04:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=32358"},"modified":"2025-04-17T04:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:37:14","slug":"labors-pokies-slowdown-slashes-machine-reduction-rate-by-over-40%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/labors-pokies-slowdown-slashes-machine-reduction-rate-by-over-40%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor\u2019s pokies slowdown slashes machine reduction rate by over 40%\ufffc\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Shane Rattenbury, Leader of the ACT Greens:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement by Labor isn\u2019t action, it\u2019s delay disguised as progress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is now six months since the election, and all we have is an announcement that a tender will take place sometime in the future\u2013we have no actual tender, no chair of the inquiry, and no detailed terms of reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor has not announced anything new today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGiven that at the end of last term, all parties agreed that a review was needed, and we are now six months along from the election, it begs the question of what the delay is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fact is Labor\u2019s approach slows poker machine reductions by a staggering 40% as compared to the pace achieved&nbsp; by the Greens over the last seven years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the Greens were in the driving seat of gambling reform, machines were being pulled out faster \u2014 now, under Labor, progress is slowing dramatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Rattenbury, Leader of the ACT Greens: \u201cToday\u2019s announcement by Labor isn\u2019t action, it\u2019s delay disguised as progress.&nbsp; \u201cIt is now six months since the election, and all we have is an announcement that a tender will take place sometime in the future\u2013we have no actual tender, no chair of the inquiry, and no detailed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/labors-pokies-slowdown-slashes-machine-reduction-rate-by-over-40%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor\u2019s pokies slowdown slashes machine reduction rate by over 40%\ufffc\ufffc&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32359,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32358\/revisions\/32359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}