After discussions with the
Some 20 years ago the Victoria state government imposed a law which required pokie venues to close for four hours a day. Te laws were ineffectual mainly because it didn’t specify which hours the venues should close, and larger operators merely staggered their closing hours so gamblers could play 24 hours a day across different venues.
In South Australia pokie rooms must be closed for a period of six hours but this can be one period of six hours, two periods of three hours or three periods of two hours.
In NSW, clubs and hotels cannot operate EGMs between 4am and 10am weekdays although venues can apply to vary the shutdown periods and apply for a three hour shutdown period whilst in Queensland the maximum trading hours for venues with gambling are 5am to 2am although there can be applications submitted to extend this for up to two hours.
In 2008, NSW reviewed the effectiveness of a six-hour shut down period introduced in 2003 and found a correlation between gambling harm and late night hours. A 2020 NSW report shows support for a minimum four-hour shutdown.
Currently in Tasmania gambling rooms can only open for 20 hours a day maximum.
TASMANIA’S GAMBLING SECTOR
Te state’s gambling sector is governed by the Tasmanian Liquor and Gaming Commission which sits within the Department of Treasury and Finance and is Tasmania’s independent gambling authority responsible for licensing and compliance.
Legislation governing the regulation, supervision, and control of gambling in Tasmania includes:
Gaming Control Act 1993 and Racing Regulation Act 2004.
Tere are no major lottery providers but Tattersalls Sweeps (licensed in Victoria) and
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Tasmanian government and with just a six per cent majority in parliament the development of a casino was accepted and the Wrest Point Casino Licence and Development Act of 1968 was passed. In February 1973, the Federal Group officially opened the Wrest Point Hotel and Casino and this paved the way to a tourism boom, increased
flights, and new investment for the island.
Golden Casket (licensed in Queensland) hold a foreign game permit to allow their products to be offered from accredited outlets in Tasmania. Tattersalls offers the draw lottery and Golden Casket offers scratchies.
Minor gaming such as lucky envelopes, bingo and raffles exist and there were 242 licences last year.
Totalisator and fixed odds wagering is supplied by UBET Tas (previously known as TOTE Tasmania) a subsidiary of Tabcorp Holdings. UBET offers wagering on thoroughbred, harness, and greyhound racing and fixed odds on sports betting and race wagering.
Tasmania has four racing clubs and five thoroughbred racetracks and eight harness racetracks and three greyhound racetracks.
Te two casinos in Tasmania include:
Wrest Point in Sandy Bay, Hobart - this was the first casino to open in Australia. It is located within Tasmania’s entertainment and
conference epicentre with three hotels and views of the River Derwent and Mount Wellington as its backdrop. Wrest Point is Tasmania’s tallest building and home to the Point Revolving restaurant.
Owned by the Federal Group, Wrest Point’s story dates back to the 1800s when a group of business formed the Federal Coffee Palace Company and built the ‘Coffee Palace’ located in Melbourne which was seven stories high, with 450 rooms and had the largest dining room in Australia.
As the depression hit in the late 1880s a liquor licence was obtained, and the Coffee Palace was renamed the Hotel Federal in 1924.
Over the next few decades the group followed with other hotels such as the Savoy Plaza and Te Windsor before looking at Tasmania and buying the Wrest Point Riviera Hotel in Sandy Bay in 1956.
A hotel had been on this site since 1839 when William Chaffey built an inn there shortly after European settlement. It was later bought by Arthur Drysdale who transformed the inn into the Riviera hotel.
After discussions with the Tasmanian government and with just a six per cent majority in parliament the development of a casino was accepted and the Wrest Point Casino Licence and Development Act of 1968 was passed.
In February 1973, the Federal Group officially opened the Wrest Point Hotel and Casino and this paved the way to a tourism boom, increased flights, and new investment for the island.
More than 2,000 visited on the first night it opened and the hotel was booked out for the first three months.
Today the location offers three hotels catering to all budgets – Te Wrest Point Tower, Te Wrest Point Water Edge and the Wrest Point Motor Inn – plus conference facilities, health club, bars and restaurants.
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