Mar 21, 2016 -- 11:43PM, clint smoker wrote:
Australia is the only country in the world that allows online sports betting, in-play sports betting, but not online in-play sports betting. Stupid, right? What's the difference between making a phone call, standing at a TAB machine, or sitting at home on your computer? New Zealand has it, why can't we?The arguments against legalising it are that it will increase the number of problem gamblers, that it will allow problem gamblers to lose more money more quickly, and that some funds may be diverted away from the pokies and racing industry. And these are all moot points - the number of new problem gamblers will be negligible as they're all already gambling through the many mediums available, problem gamblers already lose as much as they can so any change to total losses would be negligible, and yes there would be a shifting of profits away from historic operators but that is simply indicative of changing times and operators that have failed to keep up.The arguments for legalising it are that it would increase the productivity and efficiency of winning punters and the industry in general. Unfortunately given that winning punters are very few and far between, there are no major advocates who take heed of their concerns, so it is left up to the operators to try and convince politicians to bring about change, and with all the negative stigma associated with the industry, it's an uphill battle.When the legislation was passed in 2001, online betting wasn't a very big thing, I've been told that the main purpose of the legislation was to prevent online casinos and poker machines from being able to operate in Australia, but that the bill was worded to be as widely encompassing as possible, including all sports and betting games (horse racing and lottery excepted). Unfortunately the average layman/politician has no idea about the difference between informed and uninformed betting, everything gets lumped together - it's all fixed and corrupt and bad. But given the ease of access punters have to bookies all around the world, and with the government being rather powerless to monitor or control this, it would be extremely imprudent on their part not to give punters what they want, via a medium they can control and monitor and collect tax from.Here's to hoping logic can win out.
im in new zealand, i cant bet on the sportsbook live because we are locked in with australia through that stupid wallet thing, sportsbook is good if you wanns take mid match multis on soccer especially, so easy just to load the goals section and place bets in no time........another thing i find with aussie betting sites is providing id, you have to get documents signed by a jp or something similer, no where else does that happen ,im ok with a id pic and a copy of a recent bill but gee going to that extreme that is extreme.