The Latest Breaking News from Wesley Mission

'Obscene': the staggering sum the region's gamblers lose a day on pokies

Wesley Mission CEO says the figures should be a 'wake-up call' for policymakers.

Newcastle Herald · Sep 7

'Take all the TVs out too?': councillor queries pokie move

Councillors vote in support of strong pokies regulation.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 10

'They see the pressure': why pokies reform is on Newcastle council's agenda

Newcastle deputy lord mayor Charlotte McCabe pushes for poker machine reform.

Newcastle Herald · Jul 27

Unions NSW attacks Labor for ‘woefully inadequate’ poker machine strategy after damning audit

Gambling losses and calls to helplines both up but Minns government has no benchmarks or measures to assess its harm minimisation strategy, report says

The Guardian - AU · Jun 12, 2025

NSW gamblers losing $24m to poker machines every day, analysis shows

Wesley Mission says the ‘devastating impact deepens every day’ with western Sydneysiders accounting for $2m an hour lost to pokies

The Guardian - AU · Jun 4, 2025

Australians lose more money to gambling in a year than government spends on aged care, report finds

The $31.5bn lost each year likened to a ‘hidden, unspoken black hole’ that cost-of-living policies have not addressed

The Guardian - AU · Mar 4, 2025

NSW gambling scheme relies on ‘embarrassing and not credible’ research, clubs and hotels warn

Powerful industry groups oppose mandatory accounts for gamblers to help monitor everyone using poker machines

The Guardian - AU · Dec 3, 2024

More than 500 new poker machines installed in NSW despite Chris Minns promising to slash numbers

Total number of machines in state increased from 87,094 in March last year to 87,644 in October

The Guardian - AU · Nov 5, 2024

Pokie numbers, losses still rising despite crackdown

Despite promises from the NSW Labor government to cut down on poker machines, their numbers continue to grow.

AAP · May 8, 2024

Pokie losses in the billions as machine numbers rise

Every day for the past year, gamblers lost an average of $22.4 million in NSW amid a rise in the number of machines in operation.

AAP · Oct 6, 2023