NSW Casino Authority head quits = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-26-2000
NSW Casino Authority head quits = 2

Ms Loder was requested to resign by the head of the Premier's Department after discussions
with Gaming and Racing Minister Richard Face, he said.

Mr Carr said he had been appalled and surprised at Ms Loder's comments which he had
sought to confirm through transcripts.

"We don't want to see people who've made money out of this inhuman trade in addictive
drugs be able to put their money, ill-gotten as it is, immoral as it is, through the casino,"

Mr Carr told reporters.

"It's clearly intolerable to me to have the person who chairs the Casino Control Authority
saying that it's somehow acceptable, that it's somehow the lesser of the available evils,
to have money accrued through heroin dealing put through the roulette.

"This is a very important authority and we want to see that people have absolute ...

unqualified confidence in the way it sets about controlling casino gaming."

Under state laws, the CCA is responsible for the supervision and control of casino
operators, employees and operations.

Mr Carr said the legislation also provided powers for patrons to be excluded from casinos.

He denied the laws were inadequate in scrutinising the income sources of high rollers.

"No-one's suggested that the powers in the legislation are inadequate," Mr Carr said.

"There was no evidence presented on Four Corners that there is inadequate police scrutiny
of people in the casino or an inadequate police power."

Mr Carr also defended the need for NSW to have a casino, warning of a return to the
days of illegal gaming if the Sydney casino was ever to go.

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