\u201cToday\u2019s announcement by Labor isn\u2019t action, it\u2019s delay disguised as progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\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
\u201cLabor has not announced anything new today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\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
\u201cThe fact is Labor\u2019s approach slows poker machine reductions by a staggering 40% as compared to the pace achieved by the Greens over the last seven years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\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":"
\u201cToday\u2019s announcement by Labor isn\u2019t action, it\u2019s delay disguised as progress. \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. \u201cLabor has not announced … Continue reading “Labor\u2019s pokies slowdown slashes machine reduction rate by over 40%”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382","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=32382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32383,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions\/32383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}