It looks like Wrest Point Casino in Tasmania is poised to become the
second land-based Australian casino to bring its casino gambling to the
Internet. Trans-Global Interactive (TGL), previously a mining company
called Trans-Global Resources N.L., will make it happen.
In April 1999, TGL made a deal to acquire a 50 percent ownership
interest in Sydney-based Gaming & Entertainment Technology Systems (GET
Systems). For the past few years, GET Systems has been developing
Java-based online gaming software designed to comply with the Internet
wagering regulatory model adopted by Australian gaming ministers in May
1997.
The GET Group granted a software license to Australian National
Hotels Pty Ltd (Federal Hotels), operators of Wrest Point and Launceston
casinos in Tasmania, on March 1. It also has a licensing deal with
Christchurch Casinos Limited of New Zealand, through which it operates a
play-for-fun casino.
The software is undergoing a validation process by the Tasmanian
government, and TGL anticipates that it will be approved and ready to go
live by August 1999.
Lasseters Casino, based in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory,
became the first Australian land-based casino to go online in April
1999.
On Friday, an Australian Internet technology company called GOCORP
announced that it has been granted the first Internet gaming license
issued by the government of Queensland.
For more information on GET Systems and its software, visit:
http://www.getsystems.com
To download an MSWord version of TGL's Information Memorandum (Sections 1-5), go to:
https://www.igamingnews.com/articles/files/SectionsofInfoMem.doc