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Recap 2009: Australia Edition

This past year was a pretty easy year for the Australia land and online casino gambling industry – there were not a lot of solid changes although there was a lot of movement in a negative direction. The Australian government is firmly against the online casinos and that has shown throughout 2009 as the government introduced new measures aimed at filtering out specific internet content from the entire country. The international news media caught onto these actions though and have blasted the Aussie officials for this strong move to limit its citizen’s internet freedoms. The only other major movement within the online gambling market has been the changes to Tasmania’s land and internet gambling regulations.

The Tasmanian state government did not win any friends with its attempt to pull all land and online casino betting activity out of the rest of the country and into Tasmania. Although there was a huge outcry over a single week, all of the fervor died down as the Tassie government abandoned the plans and instead focused on expanding the state controlled betting group’s presence in the international gambling market. Online casinos are illegal in Australia, but it’s not illegal for Aussie companies to launch into the legal foreign gambling industry.

Tasmania’s storm, though it died down quickly, has introduced a really interesting approach to online casino gambling regulation that has never really and truly been tried in the gambling industry – and it won’t yet. Although it seemed like a great idea, other licensing and regulatory authorities essentially beat the officials back into submission on the issue and the Tassie government moved on from that initial plan.