Former top health bureaucrat Fran Thorn has been appointed as the inaugural Chair of Victoria’s new gambling regulator
Former upside wellness bureaucrat Fran Thorn has been appointed as the inaugural Chair of Victoria’s young gambling regulator.
She has been appointed for triad years, starting 1 Jan 2022, and testament help launch the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC).
Thorn, who resigned from her role as Health Department Secretary ten years ago, testament get lapse of gaming and gambling activities throughout Victoria,
The VGCCC takes over regularization from the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR), but testament no yearner give the responsibleness of liquor regulation. That testament be transferred to the Department of Justice and Community Safety.
“The changes we are making will reckon a take back to a modelling that is fit-for-purpose and has a specific and disunite focus on spirits and play regulation,” said Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation, Melissa Horne.
The unexampled regulator follows a royal commission into Crown Resorts, which found that Crown Melbourne had occupied inwards unlawful conduct. Rather than pushing for the operator to turn a loss its licence, the charge instead recommended that Crown proceed operating below the lapse of a special manager for ii years.
All 33 of the report’s recommendations meantime were accepted by the Victorian Government.