GAMBLING DATA
2020-21
Total gambling expenditure (losses) by state. Please note that there were closures of gambling venues due to COVID19 in 2020-21, and total gambling losses may have been impacted by venue closures.
NSW
VIC
QLD
SA
WA
$10.89B
$3.44B
$5.34B
$1.44B
$1.78B
$24.04B
Source: Australian Gambling Statistics, 38th edition, 1995-96 to 2020-21 (qgso.qld.gov.au) Page 6, Total Gambling Expenditure
TAS
$398M
NT
ACT
$404M
$364M
VICTORIA
This data has been compiled by the City of Greater Dandenong, a leadership council of the Alliance for Gambling Reform, to help interested parties obtain information about the impact of gambling upon their local areas.
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If an application for poker machines has arisen in your local area, reviewing the previous VGCCC decisions on gambing applications will be helpful in preparing to present a rebuttal case to Council and the VGCCC if necessary. Including specific data of your local area and the potential harm caused by additional poker machines will be crucial to making your case, as well as linking to the listed relevant research.
To access relevant data click here.
NEW SOUTH WALES
Data for poker machines in clubs and pubs in NSW is published 6 monthly by the Dept of Liquor and Gambing. Data is reported by Local Government Area (LGA).
There are some quirks to note: The reporting period for clubs is June-Nov & Dec-May, while pubs report July-Dec & Jan-June, although both data sets are released at the same time.
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In NSW, there is no venue by venue data. If there are fewer than 5 clubs in an LGA, Liquor and Gambing bundle the data in with a neighbouring LGA. They do the same if there are less than 5 pubs. However, they don't bundle the same LGAs together, and if an additional club or pub opens, they de-amalgamate the data. This means it can be impossible to determine the losses in LGAs with small numbers of venues, especially if they open and close from time to time.
