Research Center Aimed at Aussie
Australia has really become a hot button name in the online casino gambling
industry these days because the country is in such turmoil over the illegal
internet gambling that is very present in the marketplace despite the fact that
Australia is far away from other legal gambling markets and despite the fact
that the Aussie government has put out strong threats to these gambling
companies. In the past several months Australia’s plans to censor and filter the
online casinos (and other questionable content) out of the entire country made
headlines. Now though, there is a hope that the push and talk of research
centers in the country could help alleviate some of the pressure that the
government is putting on the toward internet censorship.
One of the key new developments in this market is the Flinders Center for
Gambling Research. This new center in Australia is really aimed at making the
entire industry, including land and online casino betting sites much more
socially responsible and aware of some of the repercussions that often accompany
the industry according to key detractors.
In addition to education and an ability to better develop a national plan to
battle and online casino addictions, the Center will actually be giving the
gambling companies accountability. The government is really supremely concerned
that a full gambling market, complete with legal online casinos, will breed
larger and more severe gambling issues like problem and addictive gambling along
with underage gambling concerns. The Center has already been quite active in the
online casino gambling market and now though, the Center feels that “there is an
urgent need to quantify and define the extent and nature of broader
gambling-related issues in our society,” noted one of the chief research
professors at the Flinders Research Center, Malcolm Battersby. |