PEOPLE BEFORE POKIES A TASMANIAN GREENS POLICY INITIATIVE TASMANIA. Launched by Kim Booth MP CREATE OUR February 2014 OWN FUTURE Authorised by Nick McKim MP, Parliament House, Hobart ` > YOUR TEAM IN STATE PARLIAMENT > WANT MORE INFO? State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens Level 1, 162 Macquarie Street, Hobart, 7000 Postal Address: Parliament House, Hobart, 7000 Phone: (03) 6233 8300 Fax: (03) 6223 1406 E-mail:
[email protected] Web: mps.tas.greens.org.au Tasmanian Greens Policy Initiative: People Before Pokies | Issued on 03 March 2014 | Authorised by Nick McKim MP, Parliament House, Hobart People before Pokies A Five Year Plan to Remove Pokies from Tasmania The Tasmanian Greens have a plan to make Tasmania pokie-free over five years. In the calendar year January 2013 to January 2014 Tasmanians lost • Despite the much lauded Federal Labor gambling mandatory pre- $206, 326, 356 on pokies. commitment promises, these promises were broken, leaving little changed at the federal arena, making state intervention all the This is an average of $17, 193, 863 over 12 months. more urgent. This is $402.25 lost per every Tasmanian. (as per Treasury’s latest • Community, welfare and church groups have been calling for Population data.) action on pokies for the last decade, only to be ignored by successive state governments as the problem intensifies. Community organisations, churches, small businesses, legal representatives are calling for action to stop the damage pokies are wreaking on our communities – the Greens will make Tasmania pokie- free over five years. > OUR PLAN Commence a five year withdrawal period, at the end of which pokies > THE ISSUE will no longer be permitted to operate in Tasmania • Tasmanians lose between $14 million – $17 million each month This includes all pokies in Tasmania’s hotels, clubs, casinos on pokies - more than $400 annually per man, woman and child.