GAMBLING venues owned by the ALP present a conflict of interest and should be dumped, says independent MP Andrew Wilkie.

The Canberra Labor Club Group operates 488 poker machines in four clubs in the ACT, with a net gambling revenue of $14 million in 2009-10.

Close ALP owned gambling venues: Andrew Wilkie. Credit:Peter Mathew

Labor's ACT branch receives more than $500,000 a year in political donations from the clubs, with a large proportion handed on to the federal branch.

The clubs are the single largest donor to the coffers of the ALP, and the last bastion of gambling venues owned by the party, which received about $1.4 million in donations last year from the hotel and gaming industries.