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Opposition Coalition in Australia pledges to replace regulator
August 27, 2013
iGaming Business – The opposition Coalition in Australia has vowed to abolish the country’s national gambling regulator and replace it with an industry advisory council, if the alliance of parties wins the federal government election on September 7. The advisory council would comprise club and gaming venue operators who would meet quarterly, while the Coalition would hand responsibility for problem gambling support services to the states and would ban the extension of credit to online gamblers. The Coalition said that it supported a “national voluntary pre-commitment program for electronic gaming machines” but accused the ruling Labor party of failing to…