✓ The Sydney Morning HeraldPower & Policy

NSW to roll out facial recognition in gaming rooms and ban VIP programs

NSW will require facial recognition at gaming room doors and create a register to ban problem gamblers across all venues. Rollout is expected by 2028.

Why it mattersNSW poker machines generate about 8.4 billion dollars in profit yearly for venues. More than 3 per cent of adults experience moderate-risk gambling. These reforms target harm but fall short of what Labor members demanded.

AustraliaNSW residents with gambling addiction will be able to ban themselves across all poker machine venues through a single register; this gives real teeth to self-exclusion that previously relied on individual venues.

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