The number of gambling harm incident reports made to the ACT's industry regulator has doubled in two years, a parliamentary hearing has been told.
Staff managing the territory's poker machines made more than 70,000 reports of gambling harm incidents in the past financial year, the highest figure in the past five years.
In 2025-26, there were 72,647 gambling harm incidents reported to the regulator, an increase of 53.5 per cent from 47,337 in 2024-25 and more than double the number of reports made in 2023-24 of 32,095.
