Gaming Machines Payout Alternative
Reverend the Hon. Dr GORDON MOYES: I ask the Minister for Primary Industries, representing the Minister for Gaming and Racing: Is the Minister aware that on 7 September the Daily Telegraph reported that a hotel in Strawberry Hills has been offering erotic men’s massage in a nearby brothel as an alternative to cash payouts from poker machines? Does the Minister recognise that this incentive represents a further weapon against marriages and families by the poker machine and hotel industries and that families bear the brunt of the pain and misery that accompany problem and pathological gambling? What, if anything, has been done by the Minister to put a stop to this hotel’s offer of erotic massages in nearby brothels for people playing poker machines?
The Hon. IAN MACDONALD: As much as I am sorely tempted to answer the question, I will refer it to my colleague for him to answer.
