Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAY 2022年5月 亞博匯 24 COVER STORY Certainly, the industry faces sweeping change at the very least, both from an operational capacity and in terms of how Australia’s casinos are regulated moving forward. Regulation was a focus of all three inquiries held into Crown Resorts over the past two years with calls for a complete overhaul of regulatory structures in NSW (home of Crown Sydney), Victoria (home of Crown Melbourne), and Western Australia, (home of Crown Perth). The first of those inquiries, conducted by Commissioner Patricia Bergin in 2020 to determine Crown’s suitability to retain theNSWcasino license for its AU$2.2 billion (US$1.6 billion) Crown Sydney development, not only found Crown unsuitable but also recommended the establishment of a new regulatorybody, the Independent Casino Commission (ICC), as “an independent, dedicated, stand-alone, specialist casino regulator with the necessary framework to meet the extant and emerging risks for gaming and casinos.” The NSW government announced in August 2021