Q. Would you support or oppose each of the following?
| Total support | Strongly support | Support | Oppose | Strongly oppose | Don’t know | ||
| Reduce maximum bet on poker machines to $1 as recommended by PC. | 63% | 27% | 36% | 10% | 5% | 21% | |
| Reduce trading hours of venues that have poker machines | 60% | 27% | 33% | 18% | 5% | 16% | |
| Regulation to make poker machine design less addictive | 71% | 35% | 36% | 10% | 3% | 16% | |
| Restrict poker machines to designated venues such as casinos | 64% | 34% | 30% | 17% | 6% | 14% | |
| Ban gambling advertising during sports matches | 69% | 39% | 30% | 12% | 4% | 16% | |
| Place bans on gambling companies and gambling outlets like clubs making political donations (as developers have in some states) | 68% | 38% | 30% | 12% | 3% | 17% | |
| Place a levy of gambling companies and venues using poker machines to fund anti-gambling awareness campaigns and services for victims. | 69% | 35% | 34% | 9% | 4% | 19% |
There was at least 60% support for all policies listed. There was highest support for Regulation to make poker machine design less addictive (71%). There was lowest support for reducing trading hours of venues that have poker machines (60%).
There was also majority support for all policies from each of the regular/sometime gambling groups. In fact, gamblers were more in favour of the most policies than non-gamblers.
| Total support | Gamble reg/some Racing | Gamble reg/some Poker machines | Gamble reg/some Cards | Gamble reg/some Sport | ||
| Reduce maximum bet on poker machines to $1 as recommended by PC. | 63% | 73% | 69% | 77% | 75% | |
| Reduce trading hours of venues that have poker machines | 60% | 65% | 59% | 73% | 64% | |
| Regulation to make poker machine design less addictive | 71% | 74% | 71% | 77% | 78% | |
| Restrict poker machines to designated venues such as casinos | 64% | 68% | 57% | 76% | 72% | |
| Ban gambling advertising during sports matches | 69% | 64% | 65% | 69% | 64% | |
| Place bans on gambling companies and gambling outlets like clubs making political donations (as developers have in some states) | 68% | 69% | 71% | 61% | 69% | |
| Place a levy of gambling companies and venues using poker machines to fund anti-gambling awareness campaigns and services for victims. | 69% | 69% | 69% | 69% | 68% |