{"id":24743,"date":"2021-11-22T11:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24743"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:37:44","slug":"catherine-myers-steps-down-as-ceo-of-victorias-vcglr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/catherine-myers-steps-down-as-ceo-of-victorias-vcglr","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Myers steps down as CEO of Victoria’s VCGLR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Catherine Myers has resigned as chief executive officer of the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation. A new Independent Casino Commission will be created next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Catherine Myers has resigned as CEO of Victoria’s regulator the VCGLR ahead of the creation of a new\u00a0Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCC)<\/strong>, which will replace the regulator from next year. Myers was in the position for seven years but faced criticism during the Royal Commission into Crown Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Royal Commission looked into whether the regulator had failed in its role regulating the casino, but QC Ian Freckelton<\/a>\u00a0concluded that there was no evidence of corruption and wrongdoing at the VCGLR<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott May will replace Myers as VCLR CEO<\/strong>. He has previously worked as general counsel and executive director of regulatory policy and legal services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross Kennedy, VCGLR chair<\/strong>, thanked Myers. He said: “she had implemented sweeping cultural reform and strengthened compliance and regulatory activities, leading an organisation committed to service delivery, integrity and regulating to minimise harm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new regulator is expected to be launched on January 1, 2022. In August,\u00a0Melissa Horne,\u00a0<\/strong>the state\u2019s minister for consumer affairs, gaming and liquor regulation, said\u00a0the VGCC would be stricter<\/a>\u00a0than the VCFLR and it wouldn\u2019t tolerate unethical practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Catherine Myers has resigned as chief executive officer of the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation. A new Independent Casino Commission will be created next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Catherine Myers has resigned as CEO of the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) ahead of its replacement by the new, stricter Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCC) in 2022. Her departure follows criticism during the Royal Commission into Crown Melbourne, though no corruption was found at VCGLR. Scott May will serve as interim CEO.","focusai_entities":"Catherine Myers, Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation, Independent Casino Commission, Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, Crown Melbourne, Royal Commission into Crown Melbourne, Ian Freckelton, Scott May, Ross Kennedy, Melissa Horne","focusai_location":"Australia, Victoria","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"VGCC's Enforcement Impact?","query":"What specific changes in regulatory enforcement and compliance expectations can licensed operators anticipate from the new Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCC) compared to the VCGLR?"},{"label":"Post-Royal Commission Governance?","query":"How will the governance framework of the VGCC be structured to prevent the regulatory oversight failures identified during the Royal Commission into Crown Melbourne?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,158,23876],"tags":[23735],"class_list":["post-24743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-slider-home","category-social-news","tag-vcglr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743","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=24743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24756,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions\/24756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}