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WAAG: Australia: Betting Shops

The online casino gambling industry may not be very prominent in Australia right now because of nation-wide restrictions on the industry, but these restrictions have certainly not bled over into the internet betting industry. Bookies have their hands full in all of the Australian states these days as international sporting events grow even more popular than in years past and gamblers are still enthusiastically betting on everything from football to horse racing and all of the sports and activities in between. There is a good selection of land betting operators entering the Australian market in the past year or so as the state authorities are slowly beginning to open up to competition from foreign owned and operated gambling companies. Some of the initial hesitancy was certainly aimed at the companies that also operate online casino gambling services, but proper and full licensing and regulation of the industry has stemmed some of those concerned.

With the online casinos taken off the table of possibility the land betting shops are still performing quite well. Like many countries, even the smallest of towns and cities have their own TABCorp, Centrebet, Betfair or other betting venue. Walking down the streets of any Australian city yields these betting venues and there is likely always going to be a handful of other Aussies in the betting shop checking the odds, making bets, and watching live events on the flat-screen televisions.

There is a habitual and social element to the land betting industry that has survived for decades and been preserved even in countries like the UK where the online casino sports betting industry has found huge purchase and a large base of users.