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GAMBLING

Watch: Kiwibank offers block on online gambling transactions to help customers curb addiction.
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Kiwibank offers block on online gambling transactions to help customers curb addiction

"It's about providing our customers with choice and providing them with the ability to take control of their money."

The gambling figures for 2020 were the equivalent of every adult New Zealander spending $572, made up of $128 at casinos, $160 on Lotto, $80 at the TAB and a whopping $204 at the pokies.
Gambling

Gambling spend on NZ's pokie machines in 2020 beats records

The spend on pokies last year was the equivalent of every adult spending $204.

Lotto saw a record spend in the last quarter of 2020.
Gambling

Kiwis make record spend on Lotto in 2020

New Zealanders spent quarter of a billion dollars on gambling in the final quarter of 2020.

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Gambling

Is enough being done to combat problem gambling?

The Government is working on policy for the unregulated online sector.

Watch: Problem Gambling Foundation CEO Paula Snowden revealed NZ's shocking gambling statistics on The AM Show.
Gambling

'If money wasn't going into the pokies, where would it go?' NZ's shocking gambling stats revealed

"It's clear that the people who are losing money on pokies would spend it elsewhere in the economy."

Watch: Wellington City Council votes to adopt 'sinking lid' policy for pokie venues.
Gambling

Wellington votes for 'sinking lid' policy on pokie venues to halt problem gambling

Wellington has already lost 35 of its 75 pokie venues since 2004.

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