Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUN 2023年6月 亞博匯 52 COLUMNISTS A While it’s certainly an interesting idea, the success of an Evaluator-General may be constrained by one critical point – sometimes governments don’t want to review their policies. That attitude exists because they don’t want to be told that something in which they have invested political capital does not achieve its stated aim. Having worked as a regulator and therefore been close to governments I know that this is the case for many gambling policies, particularly those implemented with the supposed intention of minimizing gambling harm. It is unfortunate and would probably be denied by any government, but responsible gambling policy development is often more about minimizing oxygen for a story than minimizing genuine harm. If one were to be supremely cynical, an argument could be made that harm minimization for governments sometimes means minimizing harm for them at the ballot box. Nevertheless, there is a serious side to this issue with office to evaluate policies to see what works. The government has not given a name to the proposed office, but for the purpose of this article, let’s call it the Evaluator-General. The government already has an Auditor-General who looks at efficiency, but the idea of examining whether a policy actually works as intended is a novel concept for a government. few weeks ago, it was reported that the Australian government plans to establish a new