Tabcorp teaching the world to practice responsible gambling the Victorian way

Consistently, especially over the last six months, Victoria has been held up internationally as how not to operate poker machines. Most in Victoria, including government, operators, services and action groups at least agree that more needs to be done, even if they don't agree on what that is.

It then seems pretty bold that this week Tabcorp will be presenting to an International Conference on Gaming Industry & Public Welfare to be held in China this week on "Strong Social Responsibility - A Imperative to the Success of Tabcorp". (An abstract of the paper to be presented is available here.)

The message of the paper, and the industry more and more seems to be that doing what is required by the law means responsible gambling. Responsible gambling however is so much more. It means acknowledging that the product you provide and profit from has consequences and sharing the responsibility for those consequences.

To put it simply gaming operators in Victoria, Tabcorp included, have not and are not doing enough to reduce the incidence and prevalence of problem gambling.

Also I think despite the messages put out by Tabcorp in recent weeks, this is a pretty firm sign that Tabcorp have more than just their eye on Macau.

GG