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Originally Posted by Funko
Ehhh.. the wording seems to indicate they're looking at sports betting rather than online poker. Hopefully, anyway.
From searching around a little bit, this doesn't seem to be about enforcing the Interactive Gambling Act more strictly (Which would ban poker sites), but rather updating it and possibly moving towards regulation.
It all seems to emphasize that they don't want these sites to be able to take Australian money and not pay any tax, not that they're looking to ban them.
I did find an interview with 2 Brisbane MP's and one of them said something about pokies being over regulated and online gambling sites being under regulated and we need to balance that out more, which is pretty absurd, but I don't think this is about banning sites.
They are looking to ban aspects of gambling, though. They specifically don't like the "in play" sports betting options that have popped up in the last year or so because most of the books in Aus are pretty much breaking those laws with a technicality so I do agree they're more interested in sports betting than they are poker sites.