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| NewZreel Column Hon Lianne Dalziel, Minister of Commerce and Small Business has announced a review of compliance costs with the objective of removing obstacles to business growth where regulation is unnecessarily complicated, intrusive, duplicatory, or indeed irrelevant. The government is to be congratulated for taking the initiative and including hospitality as part of the first wave to be reviewed. The industry now has an opportunity to make recommendations to the review on removing much of the unnecessary bureaucratic process-driven regulation from the gaming sector while not compromising the fundamental intention of the Gambling Act. This review won’t address some of the industry’s fundamental concerns like venue expenses and the required return to authorised purpose but it does get on the agenda the nit-picking bureaucracy which surrounds it. For example, do the harm minimisation training requirements for venue operators with both gaming machines and TABs need to be different? There is an opportunity for the industry to ask many questions around gaming compliance costs. If we don’t ask the questions, we cannot get a positive outcome. Bruce H Robertson 29 May 2006 |
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