The figures present greater than $66 billion was gambled and misplaced on pokies in previous 30 years.
Alliance for Playing Reform’s Anna Bardsley stated she remembered considering the machines have been innocent.
“They have been marketed as being a little bit of enjoyable,” she stated.
“I went a number of instances a yr with a bunch of ladies for a ladies’ evening out.”
Bardsley stated she ended up hooked on playing for greater than 10 years.
“I used to yell at myself ‘simply cease, simply cease simply cease’,” she stated.
“I’d however then I would be again in once more.”
Simply 30 years in the past, 10,000 poker machines have been launched in Victoria. There at the moment are 30,000, principally in suburban pubs and golf equipment.
Hawthorn RSL Sub Department Vice President Eamon Hale stated whereas it made sense to have pokies within the Nineteen Nineties, that was not the case.
“The RSL must divest itself as a result of gaming is not going to proceed to be obtained effectively by the group,” he stated.
Chatting with the media on Sunday, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews would not be drawn on if the staggering losses meant extra reforms have been wanted.
“I am not right here to speak about gaming coverage,” he stated.
“I’m not right here to announce any adjustments to that. Individuals could make their very own judgements.”
Laws is being deliberate for later this yr to place spend and closing dates on poker machines at Crown On line casino following the Royal Fee.
Anti-pokies campaigners need these limits throughout the board.
“We have to scale back the opening hours. If we might scale back the variety of machines that’d be even higher,” Bardsley stated.
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