Australian Crackdown Could Affect UK Bingo Operators

by Hollie Sanders

It has recently come to light that the Australian authorities under the guise of ACMA or the Australian Communications and Media Authority has recently produced a new list of gambling sites that have been declared “unsuitable for public consumption”.

This could have a knock on effect for online bingo operators in the UK as many Australians like to play on UK online bingo sites. There gambling sites have now been banned, and the Australian public will have no access to them. The list of eight hundred sites comes only three months after the Australian authorities first blacklisted another list of sites as being unsuitable.

When an industry source tried to enquire of ACMA what was going on, they were simply told that the online gaming and bingo sites had been identified by the Federal Government as being inappropriate. The source said that this was the first time they had been provided with a list and were a little confused by it all.

However, the ACMA has confirmed that it has received a large amount of complaints from online bingo and gambling players who believe that these sites are illegal and they were obliged to respond to these concerns, hence the reason for the second list.