remaining closed for the foreseeable future<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, an estimated 194,000 land-based poker machines are now out of action.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAustralia Prime Minister Scott Morrison\u00a0recently announced that pokies providers could lose around\u00a0A$7.5billion during lockdown measures over the next six months in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
15-25 per cent of the population who use ‘pokies’ will not have access and therefore may switch to online gambling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For high-risk gamblers, there may be a strong temptation to shift their gambling habit to reckless behaviour online, since the government will now allow people to withdraw up to A$20,000 from their superannuation accounts over this and the next financial year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early reports suggest that since lockdown measures spread around the world, online gambling has seen an increase in players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the country in lockdown, concerns are being raised over the number of people gambling online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Australia is experiencing heightened concerns regarding reckless online gambling during its COVID-19 lockdown, driven by the closure of land-based 'pokies' venues and the potential shift of an estimated 194,000 machines' user base to online platforms. This shift, coupled with government provisions allowing superannuation withdrawals, raises significant responsible gambling and regulatory compliance challenges for the iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Scott Morrison","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Response to Online Shift?","query":"What specific regulatory compliance adjustments or new governance frameworks are Australian authorities considering to mitigate the increased risk of problem gambling associated with the shift from land-based to online gaming verticals during lockdown?"},{"label":"Operator Responsible Gambling Measures?","query":"How are licensed online operators in Australia enhancing their responsible gambling protocols and player protection tools to address the heightened risk profile of consumers, particularly those utilizing superannuation withdrawals for wagering?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,161,167,156],"tags":[289,7299,1897,4138],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-daily-news","category-news-region","category-regulation-news","tag-australia","tag-coronavirus","tag-igaming","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20288,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5215\/revisions\/20288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}