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Melbourne Pub Faces Possible $222,000 Fine for Allegedly Forcing 16-Year-Old to Gamble
A Melbourne pub is facing a fine of about $222,000 for allegedly allowing teenagers to gamble.
The Gambling Oversight Board alleged on May 5 that an employee of the Preston Hotel gave a 16-year-old boy access to an electronic terminal to place bets on six occasions between May and September of last year.
The watchdog filed 15 charges against the pub in northeast Melbourne, including six counts of allowing a minor to gamble and six counts of failing to reasonably supervise electronic betting terminals.
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The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission also charged Tabcorp, Australia's largest gambling company, as the holder of a statewide gaming and betting license.
The company is charged with eight counts, including four counts of allowing a minor to gamble and four counts of failing to reasonably supervise a gambling vending machine.
Tabcorp could face fines totaling up to about $104,000 for the 16-year-old's gambling charges, the watchdog said.
The Victoria Gambling and Casino Control Commission was notified about the minor allegedly being allowed to gamble .
Other gambling establishments were also investigated.
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"All gambling operators, including gaming establishments and holders of statewide gaming and betting licenses, have an irrefutable legal obligation to do everything in their power to discourage children from gambling.
One of the most serious harms is underage gambling."
A spokesperson for Tabcorp said the company takes this issue very seriously.
He said, "We are very focused on managing the unique challenges of cash gambling and continue to invest in this area to protect minors by preventing our equipment from being used in this manner."
The watchdog is urging anyone who may have witnessed minors gambling to contact the watchdog. I Lost Everything Gambling Online I lost everything gambling online.
I have been waiting for this day for a long time. I had been waiting for nearly five years for BetStop, the federal government's national gambling self-exclusion registry, to open for business.
In November 2018, I met with former Communications Minister Paul Fletcher, who used my story to announce the creation of the registry. At that point I had been made redundant and gambled away my $190,000 severance package. I had been a blue-chip professional for 20 years, earning $130,000. I suddenly lost my job and fell apart. I fell behind on my payments, lost my parents' home, ended my marriage, and went into personal bankruptcy.
It was then that I learned that I was a gambler. My marriage ended because of online gambling. I received financial counseling and self-excluded myself from every gambling company I could think of, including those that used the NT regulator's self-exclusion registry. I self-excluded from 75 companies and thought I was safe.
However, in New South Wales, a new company has sprung up because the government does not have a self-exclusion register.
Sign up for Guardian Australia's free morning and afternoon e-newsletters and read the daily news In 2019, my mental health condition deteriorated and I received full and permanent disability insurance benefits, which led to my superannuation being cancelled.
I could not accept my gambling losses and was trying to make up for them online, mostly late at night, thinking my luck would change. Yes, I know that is delusional, but that is what the brain of a gambling addict thinks. I was terrified that I could easily open yet another account.
Within months, my entire retirement pension and insurance TPD payment, $436,000, disappeared into gambling.
I got into a 48-hour betting frenzy with one gambling company, depositing and losing $117,000 in a single bet of up to $12,000 on a horse race on the other side of the world at 2:00 AM. (At that point it was licensed in New South Wales).
I then lost almost $8,000 in one night with another company. I emailed them to file bankruptcy, but they still reopened my account.
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When I asked the company how they were able to re-open my self-excluded account, they replied that they had received my self-exclusion request via email but had not printed and filled out the correct form.
All the funds that would have been available to support myself and my family were gone. As a father, I am heartbroken that I am unable to help my daughter who is struggling with rising interest rates and the cost of child support for mymobicasino.com.
To date, I have passionately campaigned for the immediate implementation of a national self-exclusion registry, only to be repeatedly told that we are "so close."
If Betstop had worked when I first raised my hand and asked for help, I would not be living in precarious housing, anxiously wondering what I would be like 10 years from now and whether I would have a roof over my head.
But that is in the past. Now I want to make sure that what happened to me is well protected so that it doesn't happen to others. Now is the time to give vulnerable gamblers a chance to live and provide a real "exit plan" from further gambling damage.
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I want to tell others who are on the road to gambling addiction to just do it, sign up for BetStop and take control of your life. Don't wait for gambling to ruin your life. Do it.
I would tell government ministers to ignore the "nanny state" that gambling lobbyists claim to be. Take a series of measures that work for people like me. Stop advertising, stop temptation, and set strict limits on the amount of money people like me can lose. Protect us from our addictive selves.
The author is a recovering gambler and lives in Melbourne.
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