Dominic Perrottet has launched an attack on former NSW premier Bob Carr, blaming him for the proliferation of poker machines across Sydney while vowing to push his cashless gaming reform through cabinet before the looming election.
Perrottet said that Carr was responsible for putting a poker machine “on every street corner” of Sydney during his decade as premier, and said he would not be taking lectures from the man he believes is responsible for allowing Sydney to be overrun by poker machines.
“He opened it up. We have more pokie machines in NSW than anywhere outside of Nevada, and who was responsible for that? The Bob Carr Labor government.”
“Well, this is a former Labor premier, who left our state with a $30 billion infrastructure backlog and put pokie machines on every street corner. We’re still cleaning up his mess,” Perrottet said.
The policy is cashless gaming in NSW. That is the policy, and we’re working through matters around that, and we’ll be close to having something to say about that soon, express it
