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The New Poke Situation

The Australian land and online casino gambling industry is one hot mess this month as the various state and national governments attempt to address concerns about the Tasmanian government’s decision to make a bold move into the internet gambling industry via licensing. The Tasmanian situation has thrown the online casinos and gambling in particular in to the spotlight and now that the Tasmania situation is has died down to a light simmer, the question of pokies, or poker machines, is a strong concern in Queensland, Australia. According to the latest figures the Australians may be spending unprecedented amounts of gambling monies at the pokies.

As the land and online casino gambling industry expands throughout Australia the state governments are very concerned with keeping problem and addictive gambling levels to a minimum, and to certainly keep them from rising. The poker and land gambling clubs in Queensland have cited statistics indicating that the problem gambling levels have actually decreased; the Queensland Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation is not particularly convinced by the claim, however. The recent stats indicate that the almost 44,000 poker machines throughout Queensland generated $1.36 billion. This figure is a good indication that the online casino gambling industry would have some serious purchase in the Queensland market if restrictive internet gambling legislation were to be lifted.

The concern right now is that there are no tracking policies in place to monitor how the expansions in the land and online casino gambling industries are affecting the rates of problem gambling in the country.