Representatives from casino regulators across Australia met in Sydney to increase dialogue around shared regulatory issues, streamline touchpoints, and discuss potential areas for collaboration.
The gathering was held Tuesday 10 October and was the first casino-specific meeting of Australian regulators responsible for regulating casinos, held under the banner of the broader Australian Casino and Gaming Regulators forum.
The NICC was joined by the commissions and agencies that regulate nine of the eleven casinos across Australia.
NICC Chief Commissioner Philip Crawford said the meeting provided many opportunities to learn from each other and to set a collective bar for the Australian casino industry.
“The first casino stream meeting was a success and could have easily included another day of engagement,” Mr Crawford said.
“It was useful to learn about the different structures of each of the regulators, their different legislative regimes, and to discuss a number of shared experiences and challenges.
“Our colleagues in Liquor & Gaming NSW were present, as well as representatives from every state and territory except the Northern Territory, who couldn’t make it this time. We look forward to having a full set of casino regulators at the next meeting, which will be scheduled for February.”
Commissioner Dini Soulio, Consumer and Business Services South Australia said, “The forum was an excellent opportunity to engage with our interstate counterparts, compare initiatives and discover better ways of working together to learn from each other and to more consistently regulate the casino industry.”
“This collaboration will ensure that regulators across the county are developing and sharing best practice regulatory models and also providing more certainty for the industry,” Mr Soulio said.
“The meeting kicked off an ongoing dialogue around probity assessments, enhancing data analytics, and cross-jurisdictional issues regulating commercial entities, all conversations which will help inform better approaches to managing and closing regulatory gaps,” said Mr Crawford.
“Casino specific gatherings allow us to be the networked regulator we need to be to meet the challenges of modern casino operations.”