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WAAG: Australia: Government

The Australian government has created a really unique and not altogether clear policy regarding the online casino gambling industry. On one side, the government definitely has legislation in place from 2001 that makes operating an internet gambling site for the Australian market illegal. But the other side of that legislation has the pastime of frequenting the online casinos legal for the Aussies themselves. To top that off, the Australian government is not actively enforcing the 2001 Interactive Gambling Act and that means that foreign internet gambling companies have not taken the threats seriously.

The Australian government is a bit wishy-washy on the online casino gambling industry and has not yet stood firm by any one decision. There is no doubting that the internet gambling industry is accessing the Australian market and willing accepting Aussie gamblers. This is because the government has yet to enforce any threats. One extremely notable attempt by the Australian government to control the online casinos was an attempt to include censorship at the ISP level for all of Australia.

The word censorship though sparks a lot of controversy from gamblers and the international community and the Australian government has been pushed back to the drawing board on this issue. The government does not trust the online casinos because of the pervasiveness of the industry and because regulation of internet gambling is quite tricky. At this point the Aussie government is still against internet gambling but has yet to come up with an effective way to keep foreign gambling sites from accessing Aussie gamblers.