Media releases

Data: Department of Liquor and Gaming Analysis: Wesley Mission Communications and Advocacy

Record half yearly losses in 2023 and an increasing number of poker machines in New South Wales points to growing levels of gambling harm according Wesley Mission’s analysis of the latest data from...

With one day to go until the ban on pokies signage in New South Wales is enforced, Wesley Mission is doing a shout out to people to ‘shoot (photograph) ‘n’ share’ images of venues in breach of the...

Leading gambling harm advocate, Wesley Mission, has today welcomed the launch of BetStop, the national self-exclusion register for all licensed interactive wagering services.

Wesley Mission CEO, Stu Cameron, says “We’re passionately committed to playing our part in ensuring a profoundly important reform – one that can significantly reduce gambling harm caused by poker...

Wesley Mission says the NSW Supreme Court’s citing of local community concerns surrounding the impact of additional poker machine applications in an area as being ‘irrelevant’ under the current...

An online forum hosted by gambling reform advocate, Wesley Mission, has highlighted public frustration with the delay in implementing a cashless card and the government’s radio silence on the...

According to Wesley Mission a parliamentary order to force the State’s gambling regulators to show their full hand of surveillance data and compliance checks on pubs and clubs with pokies adds more...

New research released by Wesley Mission reveals widespread and ongoing community concern about the need for poker machine reform in NSW.

While Wesley Mission CEO and Superintendent, Rev Stu Cameron, applauds the Minns government, prompt introduction of legislation banning political donations from Clubs in NSW, he stresses the need for...

Quarterly data for the last three months of 2022 reveal that the people of NSW lost $2.08 billion to poker machines in just 92 days with the heaviest losses concentrated in some of the state’s most...

With the weekend’s State election heralding a “Fresh start for NSW”, Wesley Mission will be strongly encouraging the Minns Government to improve upon its proposed 500 machine cashless card trial.