Major changes to Australian online gambling which will enforce a massive crackdown on the industry are expected to become law by the end of the year.
The government looks set to act on a 2021 parliamentary committee report which recommended banning the use of credit cards for online wagering.
“It’s some 20 per cent of people who are using credit cards for online wagering whilst that seems like a small amount it’s actually that group that is more susceptible to higher losses,” Ms Rowland told Sky News Australia Chief Anchor Kieran Gilbert on Sunday. Ms Rowland said the reforms would align online gambling with “land-based wagering” where gamblers are unable to use credit at casinos or on poker machines.
She was then pressed when the changes would be enacted, but only repeated that they would be legislated before the end of the year.
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