Yesterday, Australia’s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (“DBCDE”) released it’s much anticipated final report on its review of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. Australia’s Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (“IGA”) was one of the first laws passed worldwide to deal specifically with Internet gambling regulation. Like most first models, it hasn’t exactly set...
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Pains me to say this, but I did tell you so…the so being Unibet Casino’s impending withdrawal from the Australian market following their acquisition of Betchoice in February. My words exactly: “What is more likely, in the short to medium term at least, is that Unibet Casino (including Unibet’s live casino) will close it’s doors...
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Australia’s long held legal position with respect to online casinos may be set for an overhaul. A parliamentary inquiry is currently reviewing the Interactive Gaming Act which has been in place for over a decade now and the inquiry’s Chairman, Independent MP Andrew Wilkie, has said that a move toward a regulated market is being considered. “We...
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This is a shame. From 22 August bet365 live casino will be closing it’s doors to Australian players. That means no new Aussie player casino accounts and existing players will have their casino balances transferred over to the sportsbook. This coming Sunday will be the last time you can play their live games. Australian players...
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According to gambling research consultants H2 Gambling Capital, the title of the biggest per capita gambling nation in the world goes to Australia. Their charted findings were published recently in the Economist and indicated that the average Aussie adult loses more than three times as much as the average American (US resident), Swedish or...
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Gambling policy debate in Australia is usually a hot pretty hot topic. Largely because Australians like to gamble so much. According to the Australasian Gaming Council the average Aussie gambled $1,112 during 2009 making them just about the biggest (per-capita) gamblers in the world. $626 of this was related to play on poker machine...
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Australia’s Communications Law Centre (“CLC”) has put a submission to a parliamentary inquiry recommending Australians be prevented from accessing online casino and poker sites. ISP filtering and/or UIGEA style payment blocking measures were suggested as possible solutions to the fact that current prohibitive laws are largely ineffective in preventing Australians from playing online. The...
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