But while he said there was “no ambiguity” around his intention to introduce cashless gaming, Perrottet has yet to outline exactly how the policy would work, including whether the scheme would include daily spending caps.“The issues around that I will announce as part of a substantive package but you will see very clearly that’s where we’re going,” he said on Monday.
After months of criticism for failing to back the Coalition’s push for a mandatory card, the state Labor leader, Chris Minns, on Monday unveiled a suite of gambling reform policies that he said would tackle “problem gambling and illicit behaviour in the gaming industry”.
– also include a mandatory trial of cashless gaming, a move Minns had previously opposed in favour of a voluntary trial. On Monday Minns said Labor would create an expert panel to oversee the trial, and committed to implementing state-wide cashless gaming if it recommended it. But he said the panel would include “industry participants”, something Cameron warned could hamper its independence.
“It makes sense in that all stakeholders needs to be involved in the process but the devil is in the detail,” he said.