Essential information and facts about Tasmania:
Capital Hobart
Total Area Population
Ethnic Groups Languages
68,
401sq.km 571,000
Median age 42 years Religion
Christian, Hindu, other English, Australian, Irish
English (88%), Nepali, Mandarin, Punjabi, Spanish
Currency Australian Dollar (AU$)
Government type Parliamentary Responsible Chief of State
Jeremy Rockliff (since 2022)
Elections Te next Tasmanian state election is scheduled to be held on or before Saturday 28 June 2025 to elect all 25 members plus an extra 10 new seats to the House of Assembly.
Unemployment
Tourism 800,000 Casinos Clubs Hotels
7 88 EGMs in casinos
Total EGMs 3,404 (July 2022) 1,089
Table games in casinos 38 EGMs in clubs/hotels Lottery outlets
Bookmakers 6 TAB outlets Keno outlets
2,315 94
131 154
4.4% (June 2022) 2
a Community Support levy of five per cent. Clubs will pay a rate of 32.91 per cent and Community Support levy of four per cent.
Previously hotel and club gaming saw a total of $30.55m in gambling tax paid during 2021-22.
Meanwhile, the new monitoring operator licence, which will oversee the state-wide EGM network in hotels and clubs, was awarded to Maxgaming Holdings (MAX) late last year.
Te tender process was released in March 2022 and as part of the tender bid Maxgaming will pay the Tasmanian government an upfront licence fee of $2m and will also provide an additional $1m grant over the term of the licence to be paid into the Community Support Fund for gambling harm research.
Tere is a standard service agreement between venues and the operator.
Previously the monitoring of EGMs was undertaken by Federal’s Network Gaming. Te new 20-year Licensed Monitoring Operator (LMO) licence will commence on July 1 2023. Casino EGMs will be monitored separately.
Te monitoring services provided by MAX include integrity management, electronic data collection, facilitation of linked jackpot arrangements, financial data collection and reporting, maintenance and repair of gaming
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machines and financial data collection and reporting.
Venue operators pay a fee directly to the monitoring operator. Tis includes a:
l Core Monitoring fee for EGM monitoring and functions such as help desk services, basic reporting, tax verification, investigation of complaints etc.
l Set fee for regulated functions such as installation, repair, and maintenance.
Maxgaming is the largest monitor of gaming machines in Australia and is owned by Tabcorp and currently monitors over 135,000 EGMs across its network including more than 30,000 gaming machines in Queensland and all machines in NSW and the Northern Territory as the exclusive monitoring operator.
Tabcorp agreed to sell its eBet business to obtain the monitoring licence for a deal worth $62m. EBet has been sold to Venue Digital Technology, led by former Tabcorp and Tatts Group executive Frank Makryllos.
FOR AND AGAINST
Tere have been criticisms over the handling of the new law mainly from anti-gambling sectors who wanted the number of pokies reduced significantly or removed totally.
Andrew Wilkie, Independent Member for Clark is a staunch campaigner against pokie machines. His policy is to remove pokies from pubs and clubs whilst limiting those in casinos to $1 maximum bets. Currently the $5 maximum bet allows losses of up to $600 per hour whereas a $1 maximum bet will reduce this to $120 per hour.
Wilkie has also called for a reform for online and sports gambling and suggested betting limits are linked between apps, in real time, to effectively limit daily losses.
As the pokie law was passed he said: “Tis will surely go down in Tasmanian political history as one of the great missed opportunities of our generation.
“Given the chance to right the wrongs of the past,
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