One Nation will join the Greens in supporting the NSW government’s plan to introduce a gambling card for poker machines.

Cashless poker machines could be the way forward for NSW pubs and clubs, with players required to register for a government-issued gambling card and pre-load money onto it.

The card would be linked to the state’s exclusion register to block out self-excluded gamblers.

Cashless gaming has become a euphemism for using plastic cards to store or access monetary value for use in traditional gaming / poker machines. The ramifications of introducing a card in this context are wider reaching than one might first suspect. The gaming industry is interested in systems that make it easier for people to play machines. The new cashless gaming machines may be supported by local operators. However, in a previous push, the plan received strong opposition from the public, as well as anti-gaming crusaders. These cashless pokies would no longer require players to insert actual cash notes into the machines to play. Instead, they would be able purchase pre-paid tickets. These tickets are then inserted into the poker machines to.

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Facial recognition technology has also been flagged to identify problem gamblers.

NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham has spoken previously about his father Don’s gambling problem.

He told Ben Fordham, while he supports the introduction of gambling cards, facial recognition technology is “over the top”.

“It’s Orwellian, it will scare people with the big brother consequences of having your face read.

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“There shouldn’t be any changes until the COVID restrictions are lifted and the pubs and clubs can get back to normal trading.”

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