{"id":777021184,"date":"2024-12-03T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777021184"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:37:30","slug":"annette-kimmitt-to-step-down-as-ceo-of-victorian-gambling-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/annette-kimmitt-to-step-down-as-ceo-of-victorian-gambling-regulator","title":{"rendered":"Annette Kimmitt to step down as CEO of Victorian gambling regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kimmitt will leave her role in late March next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Annette Kimmitt<\/strong> will step down as chief executive officer of the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC)<\/strong> in March 2025. According to a report in The Guardian, Kimmitt, who had been appointed as VGCCC’s CEO in March 2022<\/a>, said her decision to resign was influenced by \u201cthe pull of family\u201d. Kimmitt still had two years left to serve on her term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She stated: “I have got my first granddaughter due in January, my mother is ageing and needs a bit more help. It is just that time of life where I\u2019m deciding to step away from full-time executive work.” She then referred to the job done since she was appointed as CEO and said: “I am really proud of what the organisation has done in three short years. We are now recognised as the nation\u2019s strongest gambling regulator. We have really held the industry to account. Since January 2022, we have levied nearly AU$260m in fines. We had 88 disciplinary actions against the industry just last year.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Annette Kimmitt. Source: VGCCC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

VGCCC chair Fran Thorn<\/strong>, who is also leaving the organisation, said: “Annette\u2019s leadership, drive and laser-like focus were fundamental to transforming the VGCCC following the Crown Royal Commission and, by extension, the state\u2019s gambling industry.

“Now recognised as the nation\u2019s strongest gambling regulator, under her stewardship the VGCCC has designed and implemented a new risk-based, intelligence-led approach to regulating Victoria\u2019s gambling industry. This will be her enduring legacy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VGCCC took 88 disciplinary actions in 2023-24<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The regulator has released a report on its actions in the 2023-2024 year. The regulator took\u00a088 disciplinary actions<\/strong>: 78 against gambling employees, 3 against major licensees and 7 against other gambling licensees. It undertook\u00a01,633 audits<\/strong>, completed 2,770 inspections of venues and brought 10 successful prosecutions. The agency found 517 gambling breaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actions against licensees include a fine against Tabcorp<\/a> for repeated failure to comply with directions during a VGCCC investigation into a major system outage. Meanwhile, Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group (ALH) was fined AU$480,000 for operating poker machines at venues outside of nominated trading hours and failing to observe mandatory shutdown periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kimmitt will leave her role in late March next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777019885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Annette Kimmitt, CEO of the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC), will step down in March 2025, citing family reasons. Under her leadership, the VGCCC has significantly enhanced its regulatory enforcement, levying AU$260 million in fines and undertaking 88 disciplinary actions in the past year, establishing itself as a leading national regulator. This transition, alongside the departure of VGCCC chair Fran Thorn, signals a notable leadership change for a key Australian iGaming oversight body.","focusai_entities":"Annette Kimmitt, Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC), Fran Thorn, Crown Royal Commission, Tabcorp, Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group (ALH)","focusai_location":"Australia, Victoria","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"VGCCC Leadership Transition","query":"What are the potential implications of Annette Kimmitt's and Fran Thorn's departures on the VGCCC's future regulatory enforcement posture and governance frameworks in Victoria?"},{"label":"Regulatory Impact Analysis","query":"How will the VGCCC's 'risk-based, intelligence-led approach' and its track record of AU$260 million in fines influence operational compliance strategies and capital allocation for major licensees in the Australian iGaming market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[23911,24153],"class_list":["post-777021184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-victorian-gambling-and-casino-control-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021184","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=777021184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777021214,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021184\/revisions\/777021214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777019885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777021184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777021184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777021184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}