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Thursday, 28 June 2001
Page: 25345


Senator BROWN (11:36 AM) —I support what Senator Boswell just had to say. There is a very important point about the way in which this legislation has been amended. I want to explain my Greens amendment. It adds to the government list of provisions for gaming houses in Australia which are providing Internet services. As we all know, they are not allowed to provide those to Australians, but they can provide them overseas. There is a concern that some Australians nevertheless will find ways of placing bets on these gaming houses set up here. The government provisions say, if the gaming house is not going to be prosecuted on that, it has to show that it went to some length to ascertain that the better was not physically in Australia—that is, they were not geographically here. The Greens amend-ment adds to that that you should also make sure that an Australian credit card was not used. It is a very simple but important strengthening of the government's provisions, and I commend it to the committee.