Skip to content

AUSPOLLIEWATCH EVERY CLAIM LINKS TO ITS SOURCE · NOT A SCORECARD

Where Australian parties stand on gambling & gaming reform

10 parties on record · party platforms in their own words

Each position below is sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials — never from media coverage. Click a party for its full platform, donors and members. Individual members' own stated positions are on their record pages.

Australian Labor Party party platform

The 2023 ALP National Platform includes a commitment titled "Reducing harm from online gambling", and the party's site lists its April 2026 announcement "Strong action to tackle gambling harms" as part of its agenda to reduce online gambling harm.

Liberal Party party platform

The party's published material states a Coalition government will ban gambling advertising during, and either side of, the broadcast of live sporting events.

Australian Greens party platform

The party's gambling policy calls for a ban on gambling advertising, poker machine harm-reduction limits including $1 maximum bets as recommended by the Productivity Commission, and a ban on political donations from the gambling industry.

Victorian Socialists party platform

The platform calls to phase out all poker machines within five years, ban gambling industry advertising and sports sponsorship, mandate gambling shutdown hours at Crown Casino and licensed venues, require display of real-odds information, ban political donations from the gambling industry, and increase taxes on the gambling industry.

Animal Justice Party party platform

The party states it is not opposed to gambling on non-animal activities in general but supports legislative restrictions where gambling leads to addiction or injurious behaviour, and opposes all gambling involving animals such as horse racing, jumps racing and greyhound racing, stating these industries cannot be regulated to prevent harm to animals.

Family First Party party platform

Family First's Victorian platform commits to phasing out poker machines, diverting revenue during the phase-out into an industry adjustment fund, or supporting cashless gaming cards if a full phase-out cannot be achieved; the party also supports banning gambling advertising from sport.

Libertarian Party party platform

The party's NSW Budget response states that less regulation on gambling will increase gambling tax revenue.

Centre Alliance party platform

Calls for immediate implementation of the Productivity Commission's recommended $1 maximum bet per spin and $120 hourly loss limit on poker machines, identifying them as the biggest cause of problem gambling.

Democratic Labour Party party platform

The party states that current poker machine policies and practices "exploit the poor, the lonely and the ignorant" and pledges to fight to have them changed.

United Australia Party party platform

The party welcomed and supported a cashless welfare debit card trial under which 80 per cent of welfare recipients' payments are credited to a card that cannot be spent on alcohol or gambling.

Recorded divisions on gambling & gaming reform · 15

Every recorded vote on a bill filed under this issue, in each parliament the site holds a division record for — second and third readings, plus any amendment listed with a reason. How each member voted is on their record.

Votes are shown as the official record lists them — Hansard federally and in New South Wales; Votes and Proceedings, Minutes of the Proceedings and Hansard in Victoria; the Record of Proceedings in Queensland; the Votes and Proceedings and Minutes of Proceedings in Western Australia; the Votes and Proceedings (House of Assembly) and Hansard (Legislative Council) in South Australia; the Votes and Proceedings of both chambers in Tasmania. "Did not vote" means the member held the seat that day and is on neither list — the record says who was in the chamber, not why, so it is never an abstention. Western Australia’s record prints no pairs, so a member paired there shows as did not vote. Nothing is shown for a presiding officer who by law gives only a casting vote (the Speaker and the President in South Australia, the President in Tasmania), nor for the member presiding at a Tasmanian division, which Tasmania’s journals record. Which bills sit under which issue is an editorial choice, made bill by bill with a reason read from the second-reading speech. A bill decided by an earlier parliament (Queensland’s 2018 abortion law reform, for one) is shown with that parliament named, read from the official record of the day. For Queensland and the federal parliament “did not vote” there means the member held a seat that day, as their service is recorded; for the other earlier parliaments the record of who held a seat could not be read, so only the printed Aye, No and paired votes are shown.