onlineaucasino.com is an independent comparison site about online casinos as they are offered to players in Australia. It is run by a small editorial team; the site is not an operator, it does not run games, hold player accounts or process any payments. Everything published here is compiled from documents anyone can check: the registers of the regulators an operator names, the operator's own terms, bonus rules and cashier pages, and the guidance of the Australian services listed on our responsible gambling page.
What we publish
The site holds 219 reviews of casino brands, a guide to each payment method the operators accept, and pages on games, bonus types and the legal position in Australia. A review sets out who licenses the brand and where that licence can be verified, what the cashier accepts and pays out, what the bonus terms actually require, and what the operator restricts – including the parts that work against the player. The procedure behind every rating is written out on how we rate online casinos, and the rules the editorial team follows are on our editorial guidelines page.
What we do not do
We do not open accounts with operators, deposit money, play through bonuses or time withdrawals ourselves, and nothing on this site should be read as a first-hand account of doing so. We do not publish a figure, a date, a licence number or a limit that we cannot point to in a regulator's register or in the operator's own published terms – where there is no source, the field is left out rather than filled in. We do not accept payment for a rating, a ranking position or a favourable conclusion, and we do not remove documented drawbacks at an operator's request.
How the site is funded
onlineaucasino.com carries affiliate links. If you follow a link to an operator and open an account, the site may receive a commission from that operator at no cost to you. Commission does not decide the order of a list or the wording of a review; the criteria that do are published on how we rate online casinos. Our terms of use and disclaimer set out the limits of what this site can be relied on for.
The legal position in Australia
Under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 and its 2017 amendments it is an offence to supply online casino games to Australian residents, and no Australian licence exists for that activity; the prohibition applies to the operator, not to the player. Every brand covered here is licensed offshore, which is the single most important fact about it, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority blocks operators that break the Act. The detail is on our page on the law, and it is the reason a review states where a licence is held and how to check it on the regulator's own register.
Gambling should stay entertainment
The site is for adults aged 18 and over. If gambling has stopped being entertainment, Gambling Help Online is free and available around the clock on 1800 858 858, and BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, blocks registered Australian wagering services in one step. Both, and the limits an operator must offer you, are covered on our responsible gambling page.
Contact and corrections
If a licence number, a limit, a bonus condition or a payout term on this site no longer matches what the operator or the regulator publishes, tell us and it gets checked and corrected. Use the contact page; corrections are the only kind of message we treat as urgent.