PGF creates resources to help create awareness of gambling harm in New Zealand. You are welcome to download these resources for free.
With an increasing number of gambling advertisements specifically targeted at rangatahi/young people, and the influx of online games and apps that incorporate gambling concepts, it may seem like time to speak to your young person about gambling.
What are pokie trusts, and where does the money lost on pokies go? Learn more from this factsheet.
Online gambling is on the rise, and with it its harmful consequences.
PGF Group Submission to the Ministry of Health on their Draft Strategy to Prevent and Minimise Gambling Harm, October 2024
Gaming and gambling are closely related, with the gambling industry often using the terms interchangeably. The key distinction is that gaming relies on skill to determine the outcome, while gambling is based on chance. Learn more about the signs and symptoms of harm from gambling in gaming with the help of this factsheet.
It’s so easy to access online gambling sites. But there’s things you can do to limit your gambling or help you to take a break. We’ve created this guide to online gambling blockers you can install on your chosen device.
For some, it can be incredibly difficult to avoid the pull of the Casino or the Pokie machines in their local pub. Fortunately, it is totally possible for people to exclude themselves from venues that enable gambling through a Multi-Venue Exclusion form or 'MVE'.
PGF services and other providers took the opportunity to write a comprehensive position paper about Online Gambling and how it should be regulated with an evidence-based approach.
PGF took the opportunity to brief the new Minister of Internal Affairs regarding opportunities to reduce gambling harm.
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PGF Group Submission to the Department of Internal Affairs NZ, August 2023
PGF took the opportunity to brief the incoming Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon Barbara Edmonds, on opportunities to reduce gambling harm.
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