My campaign to keep online poker legal

1,277 views · Published 18 September 2017 · 3:45 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Libertarian Party (Australia) · 2017 · News & Politics

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The Government has a prohibitionist attitude to gambling. Rather than regulate and monitor gambling, the Government thinks that it's better just to ban it.

The result was the Interactive Gambling Bill, which aimed to stamp out 'in-play' betting. Online poker got caught up in these changes.

As Senator Leyonhjelm argues, this will simply send people offshore onto unregulated sites, with no consumer protections. Additionally playing poker has a fair degree of skill, compared with poker machines. It's rare to have problem gambling with online poker.

Senator Leyonhjelm discusses how he got the Government to change its mind.

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