Whose duty of care? Do we need to re-regulate gambling

Tuesday 9 August:
5.30 pm
Deakin UniversityBurwood CampusBuilding C,
Level 3, Moot Court,
221 Burwood Highway, Burwood

Gambling expenditure keeps going up and governments are accused of being addicted to gambling tax revenue as a significant part of state-generated revenue.
Professor Linda Hancock presents a paper that argues that the way a public policy issue is framed prefigures its scope and implementation. Framing gambling as a public health and consumer protection issue raises new issues for research, regulation and the role of government.
The paper compares alternative conceptualizations of the way that government frames and responds to gambling policy issues and specifically, ‘problem gambling’. Key dimensions of the prevailing Industry (self) Regulation Model are compared with a Public Health/Citizen Interests or Consumer Protection Model.

Guest Speaker: Associate Professor Linda Hancock
Director, Public Policy & Governance ProgramDeakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaFormer Chair, Gambling Research Panel, Victoria. 2000-2004
Associate Professor Hancock is Director of the Public Policy and Governance at Deakin University.

She has a long standing interest in analysing public and social policy formulation and implementation with regard to balancing social and market concerns in terms of longer term sustainability, equity, access and capacity to participate.

Further details & RSVP: 03 5227 2805 or email mouse@deakin.edu.au

Formerly a Commissioner on the Law Reform Commission of Victoria and a Presiding Member on the Social Security Appeals Tribunal, she is currently President of the Board of VCOSS, a member of the Board of Governors of ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Services) and former Chair of the independent Gambling Research Panel of Victoria.
Publications include books on Health Policy in the Market State, Women, Public Policy and the State, Re-writing Rights in Europe; with forthcoming books on public policy analysis and the baby boomers.