Per the liquor and gaming website in NSW. To operate gaming machines in Australia, you need: a club liquor licence or a hotel liquor licence, sufficient Gaming Machine Threshold (GMT) for the number of machines you want to operate in your venue. a Gaming Machine Entitlement (GME) or a poker machine permit (PMP) for each gaming machine installed at the venue.
and with reference to Australian Gambling STatistics https://www.qgso.qld.gov.au/issues/2646/australian-gambling-statistics-35th-edn-1992-93-2017-18.pdf
General industry information
The figures presented for New South Wales in this publication were provided by the Independent Liquor and Gaming
Authority, Liquor and & Gaming NSW and the NSW Department of Industry.
Number of gaming machines (as at 30 June 2018)
Clubs – 69,466
Hotels – 22,652
Casinos – 1,500
Number of venues with gaming machines (as at 30 June 2018)
Clubs – 1,094
Hotels – 1,419
Casinos – 1
Gaming machine duty rates
Gaming machine (poker machine) duty rates for clubs and hotels are in Tables 5 and 6.
According to the 2017/2018 ABS statistics, the average Australian spend on a per Capita basis, for all Gambling turnover, records a Gaming spend of $7,764 and a Casino spend of $1,310 for each and every Australian.
More specifically, out of the total Gaming spend in Australia of $12,520,422 Million dollars and Gaming represent 68% of the total Gambling spend, whilst the total Casino spend of $5,100,585 million dollars represents 11.5% of the total spend for all gambling in Australia.
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