Overview

• Premier Chris Minns said the government will not seek legislation to allow poker machines at Crown’s Barangaroo casino.
• Crown Resorts executives proposed installing 500 cashless pokies in Sydney in exchange for removing 500 machines from venues elsewhere in NSW.
• The auditor-general found NSW’s 87,749 poker machines generated $8.4 billion in profit in 2023-24 and noted insufficient focus on high-risk gambling.
• The report warned it would take 55 years to reduce the state’s poker machine numbers to the national average at the current rate.
• An independent panel’s recommendation for mandatory cashless gaming remains unimplemented despite a failed government trial.