Page 2453 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 9 August 2016
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The commission will also continue to explore opportunities for research collaboration with other jurisdictions like New South Wales as well as Australia-wide research priorities. I did raise the ANU study with racing ministers at the last forum.
The commission’s public health approach is a key aspect of harm minimisation and this approach looks not just at harm to the individual but the potential harms that gambling can cause to our community. It also looks beyond problem gambling and seeks to reduce the harm and incidence of problem gambling in the wider population. It seeks to prevent and reduce gambling harm among all risk groups, as well as provide support and treatment for those already experiencing harm. The commission is charged with delivering support and counselling services for problem gamblers who are experiencing severe harm and will continue to do that. It will also look at reducing the risks and costs of gambling harm for those who might not be experiencing severe harm but, of course, may be at risk.
Like any regulatory regime, the optimal outcome is voluntary compliance. Education plays a key role in maximising compliance and the commission, through Access Canberra, will provide advice and education to the community, individuals, licensees and gambling and racing industry stakeholders through the course of its proactive and reactive compliance programs. The goal is to ensure that all the Gambling and Racing Commission stakeholders understand their rights, obligations and responsibilities under the ACT’s gaming laws.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
ACT Local Hospital Network—Schedule 1, Part 1.3
MR HANSON (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (11.55): I will reserve my comments in detail on health until the debate on the line item which will probably come in on Thursday.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Canberra Institute of Technology—Schedule 1, Part 1.4
MR DOSZPOT (Molonglo) (11.56): Probably no-one in this chamber has had as much to say on CIT during this Eighth Assembly as I have. I have quite appropriately been its loudest critic and I stand by the constructive criticisms I have made, because they have made CIT a better place.
CIT has had a somewhat turbulent time during the last few years. In the last Assembly, the focus for CIT was on the merger with, or perhaps more correctly the attempted takeover by, the University of Canberra, with the apparent support and encouragement of the ACT government. It was a difficult time for CIT and it took valuable time and resources away from its core business of delivering vocational education to thousands of ACT and further afield students.
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