Licences

Licences, entitlements and the machines actually running

A venue needs a gaming machine licence and must hold an entitlement for every machine it is allowed to operate. Not every entitlement is in use: CBS reports separately the licences and machines that are “live”, meaning installed and operating.

Entitlements (excluding the casino)

12,560

12,900 in June 2010. The casino, listed separately from 2015, holds 1,080 more.

Live machines (excluding the casino)

11,735

12,744 in June 2010

Live hotel licences

425

462 in June 2010

Live club licences

61 in June 2010

Entitlements held by licence category

Machine entitlements held: the number of machines a venue is authorised to operate.

Measure

Summarise each year by

Include the casino

Hotels
Clubs
Special Circumstances
Casino

Source: CBS Gaming Machine Licence Statistics (quarterly releases of monthly snapshots), transcribed in the original workbook.

Three months are missing

The archive has no release for the first quarter of FY 2017/18, so Jul 2017, Aug 2017, Sep 2017 have no figures. For FY 2017/18 the mean uses the nine months available.

The casino

SkyCity Adelaide holds machine entitlements but no gaming machine licence. The releases report its live machines in only a few months (for example 913 in July 2015) and zero in every other month, so the casino is best read from its entitlements.

Special Circumstances

From January to December 2014 the releases show about 1,000 extra Special Circumstances entitlements (2,185, then 2,212). In January 2015 the figure falls back to 1,192 and the casino appears as its own row with 1,020, so the extra entitlements look like the casino’s, reported under Special Circumstances. The category is last reported in FY 2020/21; hotel entitlements rise over the same two years.

Why not add up the months?

Every figure here is a month-end snapshot, so a year is summarised by its June value or by the mean of its months. The original Power BI page added twelve snapshots together, which makes each year about twelve times too large.

Table

End-of-year snapshot by category

The last month reported in each financial year (June, except where a release is missing). Live machine totals exclude the casino; they include Special Circumstances venues while that category was reported. June 2020 live machines were reported as zero during the COVID-19 closures.

Financial year	Hotelsentitlements	Clubsentitlements	Special circ.entitlements	Casinoentitlements	Totalentitlements	Live machinesexcluding casino	Live licencesall categories
FY 2009/10	10,342	1,373	1,185	–	12,900	12,744	561
FY 2010/11	10,373	1,343	1,184	–	12,900	12,726	561
FY 2011/12	10,376	1,340	1,184	–	12,900	12,688	558
FY 2012/13	10,307	1,346	1,209	–	12,862	12,613	549
FY 2013/14	10,335	1,326	2,185	–	13,846	12,561	540
FY 2014/15	10,314	1,301	1,192	1,020	13,827	12,377	532
FY 2015/16	10,267	1,307	1,159	1,060	13,793	12,337	524
FY 2016/17	10,287	1,268	1,168	1,070	13,793	12,210	511
FY 2017/18	10,256	1,275	1,168	1,080	13,779	12,142	499
FY 2018/19	10,278	1,251	1,170	1,080	13,779	12,130	498
FY 2019/20	11,383	1,294	10	1,080	13,767	0	495
FY 2020/21	11,408	1,270	10	1,080	13,768	11,698	484
FY 2021/22	11,506	1,189	–	1,080	13,775	11,618	486
FY 2022/23	11,459	1,121	–	1,080	13,660	11,691	473
FY 2023/24	11,461	1,109	–	1,080	13,650	11,706	466
FY 2024/25	11,480	1,080	–	1,080	13,640	11,735	464