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Advisory Note to Editors - Issues with reporting anonymous claims from gambling addicts
24 Oct 08 - From Charity Gaming Association (Inc) In the New Zealand Herald of 23 October, its 2008 Qantas award winning journalist, Simon Collins, reported the claims of a self-confessed “pathological gambler” w more...
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Pokie spend tracking down
24 Oct 08 - Gaming machine expenditure in pubs and clubs has declined over 12 months, according to figures released today by the Department of Internal Affairs. Total annual expenditure for the year to 30 Septemb more...
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Problem gamblers waiting too long to seek help, AUT study finds
08 Oct 08 - A two year project by AUT researchers on behalf of the Ministry of Health has found the main motivation for gamblers to seek professional help is a crisis event most likely involving financial loss or more...
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Publican fined for providing credit to gambler
29 Aug 08 - A Kaiapoi publican has become the first person to be convicted under the Gambling Act 2003 for providing credit to a gambler. In the Christchurch District Court, Stewart (Stu) Ross Turner, 46, of Redc more...
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UCOL training will help combat problem gambling
15 Aug 08 - UCOL is offering the country’s first qualification in problem gambling awareness, in partnership with the Hospitality Standards Association.The six week certificate course, available on line, is desig more...
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Manukau committee opposes ATMs in licensed premises with gaming machines
08 Aug 08 - Manukau City says it doesn’t need ATMs in licensed premises that have gaming machines and opposition to any such moves will be signalled to the Minister of Internal Affairs.Councillor Dick Quax, Safe more...
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CGA survey of Territorial Authority gambling venue policies
05 Aug 08 - CGA has completed an extensive survey of the outcomes of reviews of their gambling venue policies by Territorial Authorities.
The survey reflects concerns at the local level that the proceeds of ga more...
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CGA adopts strategy for future
08 Jul 08 - The CGA has adopted a stragey focused on the future of the Class 4 gambling sector entitled: Integrated Business Sustainability and Responsible Gambling Strategy 2008-2014.
The strategic vision and more...
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Research shows gambling money going where it’s needed
05 Jun 08 - Grant money from gaming machines is providing disproportionately greater benefits to children from medium to low decile schools and from lower income families, the Chairman of the Charity Gaming Assoc more...
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Joint initiative to help problem gamblers in the deep south
23 Apr 08 - A small initiative with a potentially big impact in support of the problem gambler has come to fruition. ILT Foundation’s Manager, Ann Eustace, and Ngā Kete Mātauranga Pounamu Trust Problem more...
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Pokie operators must heed the community
05 Mar 08 - Internal Affairs Minister, Rick Barker yesterday warned gaming machine operators they must listen to community concerns about the way funds are distributed.Opening the New Zealand Gaming Expo in Auckl more...
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Problem Gambling Foundation called to account
03 Mar 08 - National's Internal Affairs spokeswoman, Sandra Goudie, is calling on Labour to disclose what happened to more than $400,000 paid to the Problem Gambling Foundation for staff it never hired."I ha more...
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Nelson barman convicted
06 Feb 08 - A 39-year-old Nelson barman has today been sentenced to six months home detention, and ordered to pay $77,000 reparations for theft and failing to bank gaming machine profits.
Damian Richards plead more...
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Christchurch bar loses pokie licence
21 Dec 07 - A Christchurch bar has to close its gaming machine operation after the Gambling Commission today upheld an Internal Affairs Department decision to cancel the venue licence for repeatedly failing to ba more...
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Pokie operator loses licence
20 Dec 07 - The Bay Foundation of Paihia has lost its licence to operate gaming machines under the Gambling Act 2003.The Department of Internal Affairs declined to renew the licence after identifying several fail more...
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Small communities victims of revenue success
18 Dec 07 - The increase in revenue from non-casino gaming machines is a success story which masks the negative impacts of changes in the number of venues and machines in provincial and rural communities the Chie more...
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Gambling spend increased in 2006/07 year
18 Dec 07 - Statistics released today show New Zealanders’ gambling spend is rising.Releasing the annual gambling expenditure figures, the Department of Internal Affairs Gambling Policy Manager, John Markland, sa more...
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AGMMA launches “Responsible Gaming Machine Play” leaflet
14 Nov 07 - The Australasian Gaming Machine Manufacturers Association (“AGMMA”) today launched its new "Responsible Gaming Machine Play” leaflet, providing free, independent and accurate information about ga more...
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Clubs and hotels should be treated the same
14 Nov 07 - Clubs and Hotels should operate with the same limitations under the Gambling Act, says Bruce Robertson, Chief Executive of the Hospitality Association.Presenting to the Government Administration Selec more...
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Pokie money to be repaid
06 Nov 07 - A 49-year-old Taumarunui company director has been ordered to repay almost $44,000 to a gaming machine society after falsely claiming for work carried out at the Taumarunui Alpine Inn.Judge Merelina B more...
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Community fund raising on a steady increase
01 Nov 07 - The latest data generated by the Government’s electronic monitoring system shows that community fund raising by charitable gaming trusts increased by 2.5% during the third quarter of 2007.The CGA’s me more...
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More gaming machine money to the community
11 Oct 07 - The social and community services sector received a much larger share of gaming machine money in 2005 than in 2000 while sport and physical activities’ proportion dropped. But sport and physical activ more...
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DIA survey shows charity gaming sector responds effectively to community needs
11 Oct 07 - “The DIA survey Where Do Gaming Machine Profits Go? is a great vindication of the fundamental objectives of the Gambling Act 2003,” the Chairman of the Charity Gaming Association, Rt Hon Paul East QC, more...
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Charities Commission gives advice on registration
03 Oct 07 - The Charities Commission has advised CGA it believes many Class 4 gaming societies may not wish to register as charities under the Charities Act.This is because the breadth and scope of some grants ma more...
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Gambling Commission decides in favour of TST in liquor licence case
11 Sep 07 - The Gambling Commission has granted the Southern Trust appeal against the decision of the Secretary of Internal Affairs to refuse to grant a venue licence because no relevant liquor licence accompanie more...
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PGF claims wide support for gambling reform following first reading debate of Amendment Bill
23 Aug 07 - Politicians across the political spectrum are showing an appetite for reform of the Gambling Act according to the Problem Gambling Foundation.Minister of Internal Affairs Rick Barker indicated it was more...
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Committee will call for submissions next week
23 Aug 07 - The Government Administration Committee will call for submissions on the Gambling Act Amendment Bill when it meets on Wednesday 29 August according to a Parliamentary source.It is anticipated the comm more...
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Dr Pita Sharples Speech: Gambling Amendment Bill
23 Aug 07 - I’d like to take a call on this Bill, as someone who indulges in the odd game of Black Jack, pontoon, or craps.However I do want to highlight the danger of problem gambling.The ‘biggest-ever sales pro more...
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DIA shuts down Dunedin venue for licence breaches
16 Aug 07 - A Dunedin bar has been forced to shut its pokie machines for five days because it failed to assist a problem gambler and breached other licence conditions. The Fever Club, formerly Champions Bar, in G more...
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Charitable gaming trusts put their money where their mouth is in Rotorua
08 Aug 07 - “In the 2005/2006 year Charity Gaming Association members returned $6.6 million by way of grants and a further $3.03 million in payments to local businesses from the proceeds of gaming machines operat more...
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Gambling Amendment Bill introduced
06 Aug 07 - Legislation introduced today will ensure that the Gambling Act operates as intended, Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker said.The Gambling Act is large and complex and as is common with new legislat more...
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Guilty plea the only option
03 Aug 07 - The Department of Internal Affairs says former New Zealand Rugby League chairman, Graham Carden had little choice but to plead guilty when he saw the evidence gathered against him in a two-year invest more...
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Spending on pokies up
01 Aug 07 - The first set of figures from the government’s electronic monitoring of gambling machines in 1600 pubs and clubs around the country indicates that spending on pokies has increased by just under five p more...
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Electronic monitoring repays multi million investment – maybe
01 Aug 07 - The real outcome of the multi-million dollar investment in electronic monitoring for non-casino gaming machines will only be known after another twelve months the Chairman of the Charity Gaming Associ more...
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Gambling Statistics “Incredible” - Unintended Consequence of Smoke-Free Law?
13 Jul 07 - AUT University Professor Max Abbott said today that the recently released Ministry of Health report ‘Problem Gambling Intervention Services in New Zealand: 2006 Service-User Statistics’ contains some more...
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Numbers of problem gamblers seeking help falls again
12 Jul 07 - For the third year in a row Ministry of Health statistics show that the number of people seeking help for gambling problems has fallen.“This is great news and shows that the changes introduced by the more...
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Government decision on levy takes money away from community groups
18 May 07 - The Government’s decision to increase the problem gambling levy on charitable gaming trusts by more than 53% is a direct hit on the amount of money available for struggling and worthy community groups more...
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Charitable gaming sector happy to stand on its record
14 May 07 - The licensed fund raising organizations which use gaming machines to generate money for community grants distributed nearly $300 million dollars to deserving community groups last year the Chairman of more...
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Gambling Commission decision calls for a policy re-think by DIA - CGA analysis
12 Apr 07 - The decision by the Gambling Commission in the Lion Foundation appeal against a licence condition imposed by the Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs is a strong vindication for the CGA’s o more...
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CGA Analysis of Gambling Commission decision GC03/07
12 Apr 07 - Lion Foundation successfully appealed a licence condition which tried to prevent gambling in a dedicated smoking area at a Wellington venue. Lion and the venue operators had positioned five EGMs so pa more...
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Gambling Helpline workload slides again
26 Mar 07 - Statistics released by the Gambling Helpline today show the number of new clients contacting the Gambling Helpline was slightly down for the 2006 year - from 2,872 new clients in 2005 to 2,651 new cli more...
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Peter Dunne gets a bite from anti-gambling activist
21 Mar 07 - A recent speech by United Future leader Peter Dunne MP claiming that there is no evidence linking gambling addiction problems to pokie machines has been described as “unadulterated rubbish” by a gambl more...
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Problem gambling providers to be more effective, efficient - O'Connor
21 Mar 07 - Contracts have been cancelled and changed, and money will be recouped from underdelivering problem gambling providers, Associate Health Minister Damien O'Connor said today.The actions result from a re more...
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Key Findings from the 2005/06 problem gambling service contract audits
21 Mar 07 - Between August and December 2006 the Ministry of Health undertook a routine audit of all problem gambling service providers (interventionand public health). These audits are part of a programme of con more...
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Audits key to quality improvement in problem gambling services
21 Mar 07 - A quality improvement programme for problem gambling services means they are well placed to manage additional demand likely from an awareness raising campaign planned to begin later this month. The qu more...
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Minister calls on Class 4 gambling sector to secure its future
05 Mar 07 - Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker set out his expectations for the Class 4 gambling sector to engage with the wider community more effectively at a joint CGA Simpson Grierson seminar late February more...
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RSA fined for illegal gambling
02 Mar 07 - Newmarket RSA has been fined $9500 plus $630 costs for conducting illegal gambling.Department of Internal Affairs prosecutor, Mark Woolford, told Judge Lindsay Moore in the Auckland District Court (Fe more...
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Excessive payments for gambling treatment come to an end
28 Feb 07 - Dominion Post writer Anna Chalmers says millions in funding could be slashed from problem gambling services after a report found existing treatment costs were "excessive". Chalmers writes th more...
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Auditor-General slams Internal Affairs over gaming says National Party MP
28 Feb 07 - Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker must act now to address the criticisms of his department over its failure to effectively control the operation of non-casino gaming machines, says National Party more...
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Slippery process surrounds problem gambling rort
21 Feb 07 - National MP Sandra Goudie says Labour is frantically racing to cover up serious long-term issues within problem gambling providers.“Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars have been poured into serv more...
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Horse racing is an authorised purpose for grants from gaming machines profits
14 Feb 07 - Recent attempts by the Problem Gambling Foundation to blacken the reputation of the charitable gaming sector by attacking grants to racing clubs are misguided, the Chairman of the Charity Gaming Assoc more...
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Problem Gambling Foundation forgets where its own funding comes from
09 Feb 07 - The Problem Gambling Foundation looks like the pot calling the kettle black when it casts aspersions at community groups who receive community grant funding from charitable gaming trusts the Chairman more...
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Gambling spending drops in 2005/06 year
08 Dec 06 - Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker released statistics for 2005/06 today that show New Zealanders’ gambling spending has fallen below $2 billion.
Spending on the main forms of gambling fell by more...
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Minister buys time to clean up bad news report on gambling
07 Dec 06 - National Party Internal Affairs spokeswoman Sandra Goudie says Damien O'Connor should drop the cynical delaying tactics he's employing to limit scrutiny of a damning report on the provision of problem more...
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Analysis of Gambling Commission Report to Ministers
06 Dec 06 - Headlines• Proposed levy amount to be paid by CGA members reduced by 13 cents per $100 from $1.76 to $1.63 (current levy $1.11)• Both NZ Racing Board and Lotteries Commission to pay more• Levy apporti more...
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Gambling Commission releases report on Problem Gambling Levy
05 Dec 06 - The Gambling Commission report is available from the link below.http://www.gamblingcom.govt.nz/GCwebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Reports-Publications-Proposed-Problem-Gambling-Levy-(December-2006)!OpenDocument more...
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MOH acknowledges problems and moves to consolidate Problem Gambling treatment services
28 Nov 06 - The Ministry of Health is moving to consolidate problem gambling services after a downturn in problem gamblers seeking help. Deputy Director-General Mental Health Dr Janice Wilson says that under usua more...
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Former gaming venue operator jailed
18 Nov 06 - A former gaming venue operator has been jailed after the Department of Internal Affairs prosecuted him for theft and other offences involving over $138,000. Judge Josephine Bouchier, in the Auckland D more...
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Problem gambling report must be made public
02 Nov 06 - National Party Internal Affairs spokeswoman Sandra Goudie says Damien O’Connor must release in full the Health Ministry’s report into the overpayment of groups dealing with problem gamblers.“Potential more...
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MOH handling of problem gambling still an issue in Parliament
25 Oct 06 - Gambling—Problem-gambling Service Providers12. SANDRA GOUDIE (National—Coromandel) to the Associate Minister of Health: Is he satisfied with the Ministry of Health’s contracting and monitoring of prob more...
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Delivering problem gambling treatment interventions service to many
20 Oct 06 - In a press release issued today Te Rapuora says it has been delivering a gambling intervention service to significant numbers of people in Marlborough since October 2005 and "we have the statisti more...
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Problem gambling treatment providers hunt for a reason to keep going
20 Oct 06 - Both the NZ Herald and the Dominion Post carry coverage of the fuss surrounding payments to problem gambling treatment providers.Under a headline Government's $500,000 to treat 34 problem gamblers the more...
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Transcript of Parliament - O'Connor questioned by Goudie about problem gambling
19 Oct 06 - (uncorrected transcript—subject to correction and further editing)Gambling—Problem-Gambling Service Providers10. SANDRA GOUDIE (National—Coromandel) to the Associate Minister of Health: Is he satisfie more...
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National MP calls in Auditor-General over problem gambling contracts
19 Oct 06 - National MP Sandra Goudie has called on the Auditor-General to investigate massive overpayments by the Ministry of Health to problem gambling intervention service providers.
Goudie, who is the Nati more...
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Strong message to gambling operators
18 Oct 06 - The Gambling Commission’s decision to suspend Dunedin Casino’s licence for failing to take adequate action over a problem gambler sends a strong message to gambling operators, the Department of Intern more...
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MOH mis-spending levy money?
13 Oct 06 - Figures released by the Minister of Health seem to disclose a lolly scramble for some problem gambling intervention treatment providers says the Chairman of the Charity Gaming Association, the Rt Hon more...
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