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Originally Posted by SwoopAE
There is some stuff happening behind the scenes apparently but I don't have direct knowledge of it only secondhand re the campaign to change the laws etc but i'm not at liberty to comment on it beyond that really and don't have a ton of current knowledge either.
We're getting a government change in a week or so over half the time if the betting odds and polling are to be believed so we'll see if that spurs any progress or not I guess
Re the guys running clubs openly advertising on facebook and whatnot while living in Australia from their personal facebook accounts I mean, what did they think was going to happen lol if you live in Australia and offer online poker to Australians you're in legal jeopardy end of story.
The people safely offering online poker to Australians safely live outside of Australia where the government has no way to actually enforce the law, anyone playing with an Australian agent or running a PP/Pokerbros club from Australia that offers services to Australians is just playing the lottery whether they end up getting charged, granted in the Poker Asia Pacific case the penalty was a 10k fine so for anyone willing to risk a criminal record I can see why some people do it. Will be interesting to see how these guys go penalty wise if convicted.
I wouldn't personally want to be within a million miles of being any sort of online poker agent in Australia given the current legislation and I think the people that do it are nuts.
Hopefully the law changes in the future. But it's still super easy to play online poker from Australia for the average player on the offshore sites just using offshore agents because the law is unenforceable if neither the person/company offering online poker to Australians nor the assets they hold are physically in Australia which is part of why it's so stupid, people can still play online if they want they just have to send their money offshore with no legal recourse if something goes wrong..
Hey Swoop
Just want to say I really appreciate how much time and effort you’ve put in over the past few years helping advocate to make online poker legal again.
You mentioned that there’s some campaigning behind the scenes to change the laws etc, is that based on labor getting in this coming week? I did quickly have a peak at the odds and labor are currently $1.28 to win the election.
If labor is elected, is there an expected time range in which we should have some news regarding online poker about hopefully moving in the right direction to have it legalised?