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Wilkie wins poker machine tech restraints
Renai LeMay
Thursday, 02 September 2010 17:30
Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie has won a commitment from Prime Minister Julia Gillard that Labor would enforce an overhaul of poker machine technology if Labor takes Government, involving what is called 'pre-commitment technology' being applied to the gambling devices.
As part of his deal with Gillard which will see him support a Labor Government, Wilkie told reporters in Canberra this afternoon '” in a press conference broadcast by the ABC's News 24 channel '” that the pre-commitment technologies would be implemented by 2014 under a Labor government.
The so-called pre-commitment additions to poker machines enable gamblers to log in to poker machines via smartcards, USB thumb drives and other devices that will identify them to poker machine networks. They allow poker machine operators to minimise gambling problems by, for example, setting limits on how much money gamblers can spend.
Wilkie said Gillard had given him a commitment that if a Labor Federal Government couldn't get the state governments to agree to the implementation, it would force the issue through legislation.
'The Federal Government is prepared to create legislation to force the states to act on gambling and poker machines in particular,' he said.
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