{"id":18043,"date":"2021-05-19T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=18043"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:26:11","slug":"australia-cashless-gambling-proposal-gains-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-cashless-gambling-proposal-gains-support","title":{"rendered":"Australia: cashless gambling proposal gains support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of religious institutions and community service organisations have expressed their support for cashless gambling in New South Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia.- Religious and community groups have spoken in support of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-resorts-to-implement-cashless-gambling\">Crown Resorts<\/a>&#8216; move to comply with New South Wales Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority\u2019s (ILGA) request that it it implement <strong>cashless casino gaming.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rev Simon Hansford<\/strong>, moderator of the Uniting Church Synod of NSW, and\u00a0<strong>Rev Stu Cameron<\/strong>, CEO and superintendent of Wesley Mission, have expressed their support for the <strong>cashless gambling\u00a0<\/strong>measure and its extension to other operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They have discussed the topic with\u00a0<strong>Rev Tim Costello<\/strong>, chief advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cameron said: &#8220;A radical change such as this move towards cashless gambling could have<strong>\u00a0a considerable impact on people who are experiencing gambling harm<\/strong>, which is a significant number of people in NSW.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Costello said the\u00a0<strong>cashless gambling system should be linked to verified ID<\/strong> and to self-exclusion registers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also said it must include low load limits to ensure people regularly take breaks from gambling. He again called for a <strong>ban on credit card gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-receives-acquisition-offer-from-the-star-entertainment\">Star Entertainment<\/a>, which has made a bid to buy Crown Resorts, has also agreed to\u00a0<strong>advance towards cashless gambling<\/strong>\u00a0to help tackle money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move is expected to allow casino operators to <strong>stop working with junket operators<\/strong>\u00a0and to make their operations more transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Responsible Wagering Australia against ban on credit card gambling<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Responsible Wagering Australia (RWA)<\/strong>, an independent trade advocacy body for Australian\u2011licensed wagering providers has responded against a proposal to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australian-gambling-companies-against-block-on-credit-cards\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ban credit card gambling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The body argued that there was&nbsp;<strong>no evidence for a link between problem gambling<\/strong>&nbsp;and the use of credit cards for online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ILGA had proposed a plan to introduce pre-paid gambling cards as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-resorts-officially-unsuitable-to-hold-casino-licence\"><strong>Patricia Bergin\u2019s report<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0into Crown Resorts\u2019 suitability to hold its Sydney casino licence, suggested that\u00a0<strong>\u201ccards would be a good system to combat money-laundering.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, that proposal was rejected by the National Party as it <strong>would affect pubs and clubs already impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of religious institutions and community service organisations have expressed their support for cashless gambling in New South Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Religious and community organizations in New South Wales, Australia, have voiced strong support for cashless gambling, particularly following Crown Resorts' commitment to implement such systems as requested by ILGA. This initiative, also embraced by Star Entertainment amidst its bid for Crown, aims to mitigate gambling harm and enhance anti-money laundering controls by linking systems to verified ID, self-exclusion, and low load limits, while also phasing out junket operators. However, Responsible Wagering Australia opposes a credit card gambling ban, citing a lack of evidence linking it to problem gambling, and a proposal for pre-paid cards was rejected due to potential impact on pubs and clubs.","focusai_entities":"Crown Resorts, New South Wales Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA), Rev Simon Hansford, Uniting Church Synod of NSW, Rev Stu Cameron, Wesley Mission, Rev Tim Costello, Alliance for Gambling Reform, Star Entertainment, Responsible Wagering Australia (RWA), Patricia Bergin, National Party","focusai_location":"New South Wales, Australia, Sydney","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cashless System Costs?","query":"What is the estimated capital expenditure and operational cost for major casino operators like Crown and Star to fully implement the mandated cashless gambling systems, including ID verification and self-exclusion integration?"},{"label":"Regulatory Timeline?","query":"What is the definitive regulatory timeline for the full implementation of cashless gambling across all New South Wales casino operators, and what are the penalties for non-compliance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[23911,23908,23907],"class_list":["post-18043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18073,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions\/18073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}