At the time of the OHID appointment, Waugh raised concerns over the intent of the department – suggesting that they had touted developing ‘tobacco-style’ plain packaging for gambling, including no colours, images or logos on any gambling products.
Speaking to iGaming Expert at the Deal Me Out conference, he stated: “That’s a clear statement of prohibitionist intent. So we should be very worried that they have been given a mandate and pot of money to go out and pursue this.”
Waugh was also scathing of OHID’s previous research into gambling, describing the department as having “low standards of quality and arguably low ethics in producing statistics on serious matters like suicide, with no real care or attention to what people might think is accurate”.
He did state that the ability t..
