The Australian Greens will introduce $1 maximum bet legislation to parliament next month in a bid to do something immediately about poker machine reforms.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a watered down version of planned poker machine reforms yesterday, including a trial of the controversial mandatory pre-commitment technology to start in 2013, probably in the ACT.

Andrew Wilkie has pulled his support for the Gillard government over the pokies backdown. Credit:Peter Mathew

The federal government also intends to pass laws requiring every poker machine in the country to be linked into a state-based pre-commitment system by the end of 2016.

This backs away from a deal struck with Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie to legislate the reforms by May and roll out the mandatory pre-commitment technology by 2014.