Minns Government moves to ban gambling advertising | Australian Markets

The Minns Authorities has moved to ban playing promoting on public transport in NSW.

The prohibition applies to Transport owned and managed property, together with inside and exterior promoting on trains, metro, buses, gentle rail, practice stations, and ferry terminals.

Transport operates one of the biggest portfolios of promoting property throughout Australia. This consists of 798 promoting boards at Sydney practice stations, 49 street dealing with digital billboards, adverts on up to three,711 city buses, 76 trams and throughout the Tangara practice fleet.

The ban extends to all on line casino, lottery, and online betting promoting

The NSW Authorities will now work with a number of promoting contract holders to implement the required modifications over the subsequent 12 months.

Transport’s promoting suppliers should be certain that all promoting materials complies with all relevant legal guidelines, accepted industry requirements and codes of conduct established by the promoting industry for instance, the Australian Affiliation of Nationwide Advertisers (AANA) Advertiser Code of Ethics and AANA Code of Ethics Follow Notice.

There are additionally further guidelines that apply to Transport’s contract holders. These embody a ban on political promoting on all property, which applies equally to all political events.

The place property aren’t owned by Transport (e.g. bus stops, shops or close by non-public property), the NSW Authorities will work with the related entitles to see how their promoting can align with the playing promoting ban.

That is the latest in a suite of reforms launched by the Minns Labor Authorities to scale back playing hurt. The reforms embody:

•decreasing the statewide gaming machine entitlement cap in June 2023
•banning political donations from golf equipment with digital gaming machines on 1 July 2023
•decreasing the money enter restrict on new gaming machines from $5,000 to $500 on 1 July 2023
•banning all exterior playing signage in venues on 1 September 2023
•banning the location of any signage or promoting referring to gaming machines both on, or seen from an ATM or EFTPOS terminal with money withdrawal amenities and launched Accountable Playing Officers for venues with more than 20 machine entitlements, on 1 July 2024

•requiring Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) or EFTPOS terminals that enable money withdrawals to be positioned at the very least 5m from the entry to a gaming room and never be seen from any machine or entry to a gaming room, from 1 January 2025
•established an Unbiased Panel to conduct a trial of cashless gaming in pubs and golf equipment all through 2024
•committing $100 million to hurt minimisation – investing in analysis, remedy, providers and reform.

Minister for Transport Jo Haylen stated: “Gambling advertising has been a common sight on our public transport for a couple of years now, and I’m pleased our Government is taking action to remove it.

Parents are rightly worried about the impact it has on their kids, so its not something that we think that needs to be on our transport network.”

“With over 3,500 buses, close to 800 advertising assets at train stations, as well as advertising on light rail and trains, Transport’s advertising contracts are vast. Because of the scale it will take some time to implement this change, but we will be working closely with our contract partners over the next 12 months to get this done.”

Minister for Gaming and Racing David Harris stated: “Removing gambling advertising from public transport is another demonstration of the Minns Labor Government’s commitment to reducing gambling harm in NSW. “This move will reduce the public’s exposure to gambling advertising and builds on the suite of reforms the government has introduced over the past 20 months to reduce harmful impacts of gambling.”

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