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Overview of gambling in Victoria and the
regions
3.1 Gambling defined
The Tasmanian Gaming Commission has defined
gambling as the (lawful) placement of a
wager or bet on the outcome of a future
uncertain event.1 It is treated as an activity
that can
be clearly divided into two distinct areas —
racing related and gaming related. The term
‘gambling’ is taken to be the total of racing
and gaming activities.
The range of gambling service providers includes
hotels, registered clubs, lottery agencies,
casinos, bookmakers, betting shop operators, TAB
and totalisator operators, and newly
emerging internet gaming providers. The variety
of products supplied to domestic and
international customers can be broadly
classified as:
“racing”, comprising totalisator and fixed-odds
betting on horse, harness and greyhound
racing, and on sporting and other events; and
“Gaming”, comprising gambling on electronic
gaming machines, casino games, lotteries,
and other gaming products such as keno, football
pools, lucky envelopes, and so on. As
such gamers can be seen as a subset of the total
population of gamblers.
Totalisator agencies (TABs) operate in every
state/territory under individual state/territory
government racing acts which established
statutory authorities. Recent privatisations
have
seen the operations of two of these businesses,
TAB Ltd. (in New South Wales) and
TABCORP Holdings Pty Ltd (in Victoria)
transferred to the private sector.
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