Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given the Tasmanian government changed bet limits from $10 to $5 not so long ago, does that not indicate that it can be done practically, and is the government concerned that given the states’ heavy reliance on gambling taxes—$4 billion a year from poker machines—that the states have an incentive not to act decisively on problem gambling?