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Leveling Betting in Australia

There has been no denying the fact that Australia has some of the more controversial policies when it comes to the online casino gambling industry. In fact, even though the US is also trying to ban internet gambling, Australia has taken all of that attention away from the US with attempts and actions intended to create a censored market in Australia that imposes on internet freedoms and blocks sites the government deems inappropriate at the ISP level. The situation though has actually gone a lot deeper than the internet side of gambling and the Aussie betting and land gambling industry has been the seat of controversy as well because of the mixed legislation in the five different Australian states regarding internet betting.

The Aussie government has just actually passed a ruling that will allow sportsbetting companies (land operations not the online casinos yet) to operate across state lines without incurring any extra taxation fees as has been the case in New South Wales. The NSW government has a 1.5 percent tax on the betting companies pulling a decent sum of money out of the state. Australia though already only has other Aussie companies operating in the state and Sportsbet Australia took the issue to court in objection to the extra tax that was placed on out of state operators.

The policy was previously in place as a way to protect state markets and keep TabCorp (a NSW company) as the leader within the market and thus contributing funds to the state budget. The liberalization of even this part of the land betting market is an indicator that some companies may tend toward a global and legal online casino gambling industry in the future as well. Although the Aussie government is pretty anti-internet gambling right now there my not be any other long term choice.