Federal agency AUSTRAC has been focusing on compliance issues in gaming venues across Australia, potentially bringing significant problems for pubs not exercising best-practises. Any pub in Australia that operate or holds entitlements to over 15 Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs) must have an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF) program specific to the venue. […]
NSW Liquor & Gaming has released insights by a licensing inspector on their methodology and how licensees can benefit and help themselves stay compliant. A release by the State regulator featured Q&A with ‘James’ – one of L&G’s inspectors – discussing which venues are targeted and why, and how they can prepare for scrutiny. The
Liquor & Gaming NSW last week held its Liquor Accord Conference for 2019, also announcing its Program Strategy for the coming years, and Governance & Operational tools. More than 150 liquor industry stakeholders met with L&G representatives in Sydney to discuss practical solutions for addressing alcohol-related issues at the Conference. The program included keynote presentations,
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The Victorian regulator has released its annual report for FY19, outlining key outcomes and achievements including three complex investigations into major gambling licensees. The Victorian Commission for Gambling & Liquor Regulation’s (VCGLR) report for 2018-19 was tabled in State Parliament last week, providing details on major investigations, enforcement outcomes and performance against priorities from the Commission’s Corporate
The revival of Sydney’s nightlife is one step closer with release today of the Joint Select Committee’s report recommending removing restrictions in the CBD. But Kings Cross is still seen as a problem. The government-led inquiry has made 40 recommendations, most poignantly scrapping restrictions such as the infamous 1.30am lockout and 3am cessation of service
Queensland’s Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) has released details that hundreds of liquor licences in the State have recently been cancelled following failure to pay annual licence fees. The Liquor Act 1992 requires licensees to pay a licence fee by 31 July each year. This regulation has been in place since 2009. If
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After five years and seven months in the dark, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has opened the door to Sydney’s revival, suggesting “it’s time”. Speaking to media over the weekend, Berejiklian heralded removing the 1:30am lockouts in Sydney’s CBD, but stood firm on continuing the trade restrictions in Kings Cross. The ‘lockout laws’ encompass a range
ILGA has handed down a Strike to one Sydney licensee and a 10-year ban to another, over “blatant disregard” for RSA, and the sexual assault of a female employee. Chris Chang, licensee of a Korean restaurant in Sydney’s CBD, is facing disciplinary action over an incident on 11 October last year. Police attended around 1:30am
As NSW revisits the broader impacts of Sydney’s lockout laws, the regulator has shown its intention to work with industry by way of the first exemption, granted to the CBD’s Palace Hotel Sydney. Venues, stakeholders and the general public await the Joint Select Committee’s report on the changes brought about by the strict regulations, due
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Scores of pubs, nightclubs, restaurants, bars and other places of business stand in purgatory with millions of potential patrons, as the NSW government-appointed committee deliberates the fate and future of the capital’s economy and reputation. More than five years and three months after the State government imposed the raft of laws known as ‘the lockouts’,
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