Family First Senator Steve Fielding wonders why nearly a million dollars was spent defining problem gambling rather than fixing it. The actual figure is $900,000, the amount spent over a two year period in the efforts of the Ministerial Council on Gambling to define problem gambling. The result? A 28-word definition that critics say could have been gotten for the price of joining in a few poker hands and asking the players.
The Ministerial Council on Gambling is headed by federal Family and Community Services Minister Kay Patterson and has representatives form territories and states. The actual result of the time, effort and money is a definition that reads as follows; “problem gambling is characterized by difficulties in limiting money and/or time spent on gambling which leads to adverse consequences for the gambler, others or for the community."
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