Australia online casinos

Australia Online Casinos

Australia is a very gambling-friendly country and gambling in some form or another has been present since the beginning of the 19th century and Australians have enjoyed horse-racing and lotteries together with land casinos for 200 years.

Today over 80% of the population partakes in some form of gambling in licensed land casinos, state-run lotteries or pari-mutuel (Also known as Tote) gambling facilities. One of the most popular gambling game in Australia is pokies. Pokies are known the world over as slots or slot machines, but in Australia they are known as pokies.

However when it comes to online gambling the Australians have a different approach and that is due to the hardships in regulating online gambling activity. The Australian have a regulatory body that is in charge of all forms of gambling called the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission.

Many online casinos have sprung in Australia prior to 2001 but that has been stopped by the Interactive Gambling Act of 2001. The Act does not criminalize online gamblers, nor does it order the closure of online casinos that were established prior to 2001.

The law merely prevents new online casinos from being established in Australia and for those that are established outside of Australia are prevented from accepting wagers from players in Australia. Due to this ambiguity most online casinos happily accept Australian online casino players.