“We don’t know any of the detail yet,” he said. “It would be nice if we had a timeline. It would be nice if we at least had a framework for the characteristics of how this is going to work.”
But the budget papers predict that the further reforms will start to reduce gambling losses in another year. The budget forecasts that tax revenue from poker machines will start declining by more than $100 million in 2025-26, “which primarily reflects the impact of gambling harm minimisation measures … which affect electronic gaming machine revenue”.
By 2027-28, revenue is tipped to have fallen to $1.198 billion, an almost 15 per cent drop over three years.
A state government spokeswoman said the mandatory closures were to ensure…
