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 NSW Liquor and Gaming. Quarterly data sets for the first six months of 2023 reveal that the people of NSW lost $3.921 billion to poker machines with the heaviest losses concentrated in some of the state's most disadvantaged communities. This is a $745 million increase from a pre-Covid high in the same period in 2019 of $3.

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