Responsible gambling – a bright shining lie Crown Resorts and others can no longer hide behind

By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

This week the Victorian Royal Commission into Crown Resorts’ Melbourne casino heard from Sonja Bauer, Crown Melbourne’s general manager for responsible gambling. Her evidence revealed a series of deficiencies in the way Crown goes about its “responsible gambling” practices.

These include allowing a patron at the casino to gamble for 34 hours straight, and regularly letting people gamble for 12…

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