Who writes these pages
Pages on onlineaucasino.com are written and checked by the site's editorial team. We do not put a personal byline on a page. A name on a review is only worth something if a reader can verify who that person is, and we are not going to print a photograph, a job title and a count of “casinos reviewed” that nobody can check. Until there are named people whose credentials stand up to being looked up, the attribution on every page reads what it is: checked by the editorial team, on a stated date.
If that changes, it will change in both directions at once – a name, what that person is responsible for, and how to reach them. Anything less is decoration.
What the signature at the foot of a page means
The block at the end of each page states three things: who checked the page (the editorial team), what was checked against what source, and when the page was last changed. The date is the real date of the last change to that page. It is not generated by a script on page load, and it does not move because a year turned over.
Sources
We use primary sources only: the operator's own terms, bonus pages and cashier pages, and the public registers of the regulators operators name. Where a fact cannot be traced to one of those, it does not go on the page. That rule decides a lot of small things – an empty payout-speed field instead of a guess, a missing licence number instead of a plausible one, a bonus described in the operator's own currency instead of a converted Australian figure.
The method those sources are put through is set out separately in how we rate.
Commission: who pays for this site
OnlineAUCasino is free to read because operators pay the publisher, Sunquill Media Group DMCC, when readers sign up with them. This section says how that works and what the money is not allowed to change.
The arrangement
The publisher belongs to affiliate programmes run by casino operators or by companies acting for them. A programme gives us tracked links. Register via one of those and the operator may pay a one-off fee, a share of what it earns from the account over time, or both. The terms differ from one programme to the next and can be changed by the operator; we do not publish individual rates.
What it costs you
Zero. The welcome offer, its rollover and the cashout rules match whether you come via our button or enter the casino’s URL by hand. If an operator offers a different deal to visitors from this site, the review says so.
Where the paid links are
Buttons that send you to an operator, including every address beginning with /go/, are tracked and may earn commission. Links to regulators, registers, game studios, Gambling Help Online and BetStop are never paid. A brand that has no programme with us can still be reviewed and listed; it simply has no tracked button.
Articles in the player guides follow the same rule. A guide about a payment method or a type of bonus may carry a tracked button next to a brand it mentions, but the explanation itself is written from the operator’s published terms and would read the same without the button. Programmes sometimes ask affiliates to describe a brand in approved wording or to leave out certain facts; where such a request conflicts with what the sources show, we keep the sources and drop the request.
What commission cannot buy
Ratings follow the criteria on how we rate, and the order of a list follows the ratings. No operator can pay to be placed higher, to have a warning removed, to have a competitor moved down or to have its marketing copy printed as a review. When a brand is not recommended, the reason is on its page – an unresolved regulator notice, a licence that does not check out, a cashout cap that makes a win unpayable – and it stays there whatever the commission.
Your part
A tracked button is not us telling you to gamble. Read the operator’s rules for yourself, stay out if you are under 18, and stake only what your budget can absorb without strain. The general limits of what this site can be relied on for are in the disclaimer.
Questions about money
If you think a page reads like advertising, or that a paid link is not marked as one, write to the editorial desk and name the page.
Corrections
If a figure here does not match what the operator publishes, write to us through contact us and say which page and which figure. We check the source, and when the source disagrees with us we change the page and move its update date. When the source has itself changed – a rewritten bonus term, a new withdrawal ceiling – we change the page and keep the old reading out of it, because a stale figure presented as current is the same defect as a wrong one.
Operators are welcome to point out an error in the same way. What we will not do is remove an accurate criticism, publish supplied marketing copy as editorial text, or add a brand to a list on request.
What this site does not publish
- invented reviewer identities, stock photographs presented as staff, or claims of experience that cannot be checked;
- counters of visitors, votes, recent wins, jackpots “paid in the last hour” or review totals;
- star ratings and “user scores” that no identifiable person gave;
- results of tests we did not run, including deposits and withdrawals we did not make;
- an Australian licence claim for any online casino, because none exists – see Australian gambling law.
Scope
This site is an information site for adults in Australia. It does not take bets, hold player funds or operate any game. Gambling is for over-18s only; the tools and services available in Australia, including the national self-exclusion register BetStop and the free Gambling Help Online counselling line, are listed on our responsible gambling page.