NSW Returned Services League clubs have urged members to wage war against Premier Dominic Perrottet’s cashless gaming card, warning that overhauling gambling could be a knee-jerk reaction with unintended consequences
, which found poker machines in clubs were being used to wash dirty cash from proceeds of crime. The commission’s report recommended a cashless gaming card.However, the premier faces fierce opposition from the peak lobby group representing registered clubs, ClubsNSW, as well as smaller groups such as the RSL association, which argues that “the holes in the ‘plan’ are too vast” and could cause more harm than good.
“We need the powers that be to understand that there could be unintended consequences of imposing a cashless card, or other knee-jerk options, in the wrong way at the wrong time,” Smith wrote in the association’s magazine.Smith said a “quick Google search shows that gambling can be found as far back as 2300 BC – and so for over 4322 years, people have been enjoying taking a punt in one form or another through the ages as a form of entertainment.
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