‘Geography - Australia and Oceania’ Archives
Intralot Fined In Australia
Intralot, the Athens-based developer and supplier of gaming and transaction processing systems, has had its Australian operation fined $23,250 by the southern state of Victoria for breeching the terms of its lottery license. Intralot Australia was awarded a ten-year license in 2007 to run a live, state-wide bingo game with tickets sold at [...]
New South Wales Offering Gambling Help
The most populous Australian state, New South Wales, has launched a three-year strategy set to cost taxpayers £1.2 million to help prevent problem gambling and fight myths and superstitions about gaming machines.As part of the plan, the state will produce educational kits and DVDs to help identify addictive gambling behaviours with specific [...]
Government To Offer License For NSW Lotteries
In Australia, New South Wales has announced that it intends to offer a long-term exclusive license for the distribution of the state’s lottery products following a detailed strategic review of the operation.Eric Roozendaal, Treasurer for Australia’s most populous state, revealed that the Government would retain the New South Wales Lotteries’ [...]
Australia Continuing Filtering Plans
The Australian Government is continuing with plans to impose a mandatory Internet filtering system that would block over 10,000 websites including popular online poker sites such as FullTiltPoker.com and PokerStars.com.The proposals include the creation by the Australian Communications And Media Authority (ACMA) of a blacklist of sites purveying [...]