How this record is built
How this record is researched, checked and corrected
My sources are the government gazettes, Hansard records and public inquiry findings issued by each state — the Bergin review in New South Wales, the Finkelstein Royal Commission in Victoria, convened in late February 2021 and delivering its report that October. I track this licence by licence, state by state, opening date by opening date.
What does not go in
No operator press releases. No promotional material, however dated or archival it looks. No odds tables and no strategy content — that belongs to a different kind of publication, not this one.
A gazette notice or a Hansard debate outranks a company statement every time. Where a Casino Control Act clause and a corporate history disagree, I follow the statute.
Corrections stay on the page
When a fact is wrong — a date transposed, a clause misread — I do not edit it away quietly. A dated correction note is added at the foot of the affected page, stating what changed and why.
This applies to small things and large ones alike: a licence date one year out is corrected the same way as a misattributed inquiry finding.
I would rather publish a page with a gap in it than a page with a guess dressed up as a fact.
No operator advertising, no affiliate links
You won't find operator advertising on this site, nor affiliate links pointing at gambling products. For an operator, there's simply nothing here to purchase.
This separation carries more weight here than most readers assume, because what may be advertised shifts with the jurisdiction. In New South Wales the prohibition on publishing machine advertising is written into the 2001 statute governing those machines; Victoria enforces an equivalent ban drafted separately. Content permitted in one state may breach the law in another — another reason I document machines and licences rather than push them.
Federal versus state authority
Casino oversight rests in each state's own statute book — the Casino Control Acts — rather than a single national code, so the same act can draw different treatment depending on the border crossed. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 stands apart: a Commonwealth law targeting online gambling, which makes it an offence for online operators to provide certain services to Australian customers, while physical venues remain under state control.
When this page is reviewed
This record is reviewed whenever a new inquiry report or licence decision is published — not on a fixed calendar. A Royal Commission report, a gazette amendment, a new regulator's first annual report: each is a trigger, not a formality.
Between those events the page stands as published, corrections noted at the foot as they arise.