Gambling harm

Community Wellbeing Plan

We are committed to the prevention and reduction of gambling harm in the community, as demonstrated in Glen Eira Community Wellbeing Plan 2021–2025. We are working to create healthier environments and provide guidance to people in our community on how to access support. We're raising community awareness through campaigns and providing education on the impacts of gambling harm. We also work in partnership with key stakeholders to implement campaigns that minimise gambling harm.  

We will be updating this section soon with details of our new Council Plan, which includes continued action on reducing gambling harm in our community.  

Advocacy

We join with the Municipal Association of Victoria and other key stakeholders as a founding supporter of the Alliance for Gambling Reform, which seeks to campaign for reforms to the gambling industry to reduce harm from poker machines and to protect disadvantaged communities from increasing numbers of poker machines. 

We will be updating this section soon with details of our previous, current, and planned advocacy activities.  

Policy

Our aim is to:

• Provide an overarching framework to guide Council’s positions in reducing and preventing gambling-related harm in the community.
• To provide a consistent and transparent approach to the assessment of applications for new gaming venues and electronic gaming machines.

Read our Reducing Harm from Gambling Policy [PDF 186 KB]

Support services

Gambler's Help Southern, provides a range of services to residents:

• financial counselling
• mental health, drug and alcohol, family and relationship, health promotion, and
• gaming venue support education services

Contact Gambler's Help Southern on 03 9575 5353

Gambling Help Online contact on 1800 858 858 (24 hours, 7 days, free call)