former Supreme Court judge Patricia Bergin<\/strong>\u00a0in her report following New South Wales\u2019 inquiry into Crown Resorts\u2019 suitability to hold its licence for its new Sydney casino. She sad cashless cards could help fight money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever,\u00a0Dominello was eventually replaced in a cabinet reshuffle in December 2021<\/strong>, and his position was taken by Kevin Anderson. Anderson doesn’t support government control of cashless gaming<\/strong>, or it being mandatory. However, he supports digital payments on an “opt-in” basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, NSW upper house independent MP Justin Field said: “The idea that organised criminals would ‘opt in’ to a digital wallet is fanciful nonsense that will keep open the door to money laundering through poker machines in NSW.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
200,000 Australian children exposed to parental gambling, study finds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Dr Aino Suomi, director of the Centre for Gambling Research at the Australian National University has released a study about gambling behaviours. It found almost\u00a0200,000 Australian children\u00a0<\/strong>are exposed to moderate or serious levels of harmful gambling by a parent each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAccording to the study, 10 per cent of Australian parents had engaged in some level of risky gambling in the past year. Suomi said that despite acknowledging the negative effects of gambling on children, there has been little research to quantify the magnitude of the problem in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearly 60,000 children face the highest levels of parental gambling problems, which can lead to significant harm. At the other end of the scale, nearly half a million children<\/strong> were exposed to lower-risk parental gambling, the study found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in New South Wales are analysing the possibility of introducing opt-in digital payments for slot machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The New South Wales government is evaluating an \"opt-in\" digital payment system for slot machines, potentially replacing a previously proposed mandatory cashless card scheme aimed at mitigating money laundering risks. This policy shift, driven by current minister Kevin Anderson, faces criticism from independent MPs who argue an opt-in model is insufficient for robust AML compliance. Concurrently, a study from the Australian National University highlights significant exposure of Australian children to parental gambling harm, underscoring broader responsible gambling concerns.","focusai_entities":"Victor Dominello, Kevin Anderson, Patricia Bergin, Justin Field, Dr Aino Suomi, Crown Resorts, Centre for Gambling Research at the Australian National University, The New Lambton club","focusai_location":"New South Wales, Australia, Sydney, Newcastle","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AML Efficacy of Opt-in?","query":"What specific governance frameworks and technological safeguards would be implemented to ensure an \"opt-in\" digital payment system for slot machines effectively mitigates money laundering risks, as opposed to a mandatory cashless card system?"},{"label":"Regulatory Impact on GGR?","query":"How might the shift from a mandatory cashless system to an opt-in digital payment model impact the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for licensed operators in New South Wales, considering potential player adoption rates and compliance costs?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,158,23876],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-29079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-slider-home","category-social-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29079","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=29079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29084,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29079\/revisions\/29084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}