Barriers to interactive gaming in Australia increasingly irrelevant

Australian Hotelier – As more and more countries legislate around the issue of online gaming, Australians are increasingly sending their gambling dollars overseas while Government sits on the quiet side of the virtual fence. The borderless nature of the internet means that while it is prohibited for Australian-based interactive gaming services to operate from this country, people online here are free to access these sites based in other countries. TheShout spoke with the Gaming Technologies Association (GTA) about the divergence between harm-minimising regulation and reality in internet gambling. “Australia had the chance to set up a harm-free, licensed and properly…