10 Venues - 583 Pokies
Cnr Davey and Young Streets
Frankston, 3199
Tel: 1300 322 322

City of Frankston GamblingPolicy Web Page

Contact on this web page is:Aida HorvathActing Manager Social StrategyThe andCity's PlanningTel:policy 9784is 1957e-mailunder aida.horvath@frankston.vic.gov.aureview.

2006-2007 Expenditure Data from the VCGR all LGAs web page (all figures as at 30 June 2007)
Please note disclaimers on the VCGR web page.

Population per venue	Population (18+) per venue	Net EGM expenditure per person	Net EGM expenditure per adult	Average Metro EGM expenditure per adult	EGM per 1000	EGM per 1000 (18+)	Average Metro EGM per 1000 (18+)
11,952	9,142	$572.59	$748.59	$688	4.88	6.38	6.81

VCGR City of Frankston Web Page

Hotels Inspected:

5. Pier Hotel - 97 Pokies
508 Nepean Highway
Frankston 3199
7. The Sands Hotel at Carrum Downs - 70 Pokies
Cnr Hall and Cadles Roads
Carrum Downs 3201
8. Seaford Hotel - 105 Pokies
Cnr Seaford & Franston Dandenong Roads
Seaford 3198

Comments:

You can download Frankston City Council's Gambling Policy + Action Plan 2005 - 2008 by clicking here. The City has also published a brochure which you can download by clicking here.

It is noteworthy that the City has made the following commitment:

"Advocate to the State Government for Frankston City to be included in the
Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) Cap Legislation and so have a ‘cap’ applied on
the number of poker machines in the municipality and seek a reduction in overall
machine numbers in line with community standards;"

Frankston remains an uncapped area despite the expenditure by its adults being above the average for the Melbourne area.

The City commissioned a $17,000 survey into Young People’s Perceptions and Attitudes towards Gambling. The City stated on page 11 of its 2005 Gambling Policy (page 14 of the pdf) as follows:

"The most popular forms of gambling engaged in by young people were scratch tickets, betting, lotteries and poker machines. Three types of influences on young people gambling were established and they were familial, cohort and societal influences, meaning often young people would gamble with their parents and peers. However, there were young people who did not gamble and this was either because they simply were not interested in gambling or influenced by their perception of gambling and the harm that it caused to others if it became out of control.
More than half of the survey respondents (50.7%) indicated that they had participated in betting on the races. The second most popular activity was the purchase/obtainment through other means of scratch tickets (39.1%). Fewer than 20 per cent (18.8%) had played poker machines in the past month. However, a large percentage of survey respondents (42%) said that they had not gambled in the past month. Young people were more likely to indicate that they gambled ‘accompanying family/friends’ (37.7%) than any other reason for gambling."

The sentence underlined may give weight to the need for particular care when introducing children to pokie hotels.