Reports
Author(s): Responsible Wagering Australia
Year Published: 2025
Date Added: March 07, 2026
Resource Type: Special report
This report by the gambling industry body Responsible Wagering Australia, outlines the extent of Australia’s illegal offshore online gambling market. The analysis assesses implications of the growing and increasingly sophisticated illegal offshore market and outlines measures that could improve the effectiveness of Australia’s policy and enforcement framework. Recommendations include:Ensure changes to policy are evidence-based, align with international best practice, and effective in reducing the risk of harm.Enable enforcement by creating a national illegal gambling blacklist platform to centralize illegal gambling domains, mirror sites, and related app identifiers.Give authority for the eSafety Commissioner to issue removal, link-deletion, and ISP-blocking notices.Require banks and payment service providers to block transactions linked to illegal offshore gambling operators.
This report by the gambling industry body Responsible Wagering Australia, outlines the extent of Australia’s illegal offshore online gambling market. The analysis assesses implications of the growing and increasingly sophisticated illegal offshore market and outlines measures that could improve the effectiveness of Australia’s policy and enforcement framework.
Recommendations include:
