South Australia is attempting a move that no other jurisdiction in Australia has tried yet: The state has decided to tax online gambling companies on revenue they earn inside state borders. While this may not sound like a huge burden on an industry that earns $10 billion a year, it has stirred up quite a …
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Australians have been historically down in the fight for online poker. The country’s new Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill seemed to be the end of any chance at ever hosting a regulated market. However, the Aussie poker community may have just received a lifeline from the Senate. The Australian Senate recently voted 46-22 in favor of …
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Australia’s highly contested Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016 has received Royal Assent from Governor Peter Cosgrove. This means the legislative bill is all set to become adopted into Australian law. With the last gambling law implemented in 2001, the local government felt it was time for change. The Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill first emerged in …
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Click to call betting is legally permitted in Australia under existing gambling laws. Australian federal government officials recently became aware that multiple live betting services were circumventing online gambling restrictions by simulating a phone call and providing live betting options through the click to call exception. Once aware of the situation, Mitch Fifield, Australia’s communications …
The Interactive Gaming Act (IGA) is the law by which Australia regulates interactive gambling within the country. This law allows in-play sports bets to be placed via telephone only. Based on this law, various online betting sites took advantage of a loophole in the law and began offering voice activated mobile applications that facilitate a …
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Australia has been known as one of the most potent online gambling customer markets throughout the world for a long time. However, legislation in the country in the past has forced other online gambling operators to stop accepting customers from the land down under. Major brands like 888poker and PokerStars have recently vacated the country …
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Not-so-long-ago in a country far, far away (relatively) the constitutional monarchy of Australia won a major political battle against online gambling. Australian online poker and casino games were the main victims of the new law set down by the Australian legislation known as the Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill. The Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill effectively made …
The Australian government has recently begun a crackdown on offshore gambling and it might mean big business for Bitcoin. The Interactive Gambling Act of 2016 is an amendment of the Interactive Gambling Act of 2001 that was presented after Barry O’Farrell, a former south wales premier, released his own “Review of illegal Offshore Wagering” report. …
In Australia, a man has formed a resistance group! The Australian Online Poker Alliance (AOPA) was created out of inherent fear that a new internet gambling bill might place an unintended ban on Internet poker. The interactive Gambling Amendment Bill forces offshore gambling sites to untangle a completely new web of regulation and licensing requirements …
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International online gambling companies are expected to make a mass exodus from Australia in the wake of the country’s new online gambling amendments. Among the several amendments that the Australian senate has recently given approval, were a few gambling laws that will act to outlaw domestic online poker, roulette, and in-play, or live sports betting. …
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