This page presents official gambling statistics as a scrolling scene, which needs
JavaScript. The underlying figures do not. In 2023–24 Australians lost
$16,293,068,113 on poker machines in pubs and clubs — about $515 every
second — of which $5.36 billion was collected by state governments as tax.
Source:
Australian
Gambling Statistics, 40th edition, Queensland Government Statistician’s Office.
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