For those in Australia that have been fighting to get a lid on the number of slot machines in the country, to find out that there is a renewed push to make online gambling easier, it is very discouraging. Australia has many gambling addicts and those that are against the industry say that in order to try and start reining them in we have to have stricter rules in place or they will continue to hurt themselves. However, those that are in support of the gambling say that this is not the case. They argue that we do not have the right to tell them what to do and therefore they are pursuing the idea of making the rules more lenient.
But if you go on or sites similar to that, you will see that Independent Senator Nick Xenophon and Tony Abbott are so concerned about it that they are sure that all they can do to show people how much they care about them and the situation by teaming up. Now this is not something that they would normally do, but because they are so worried about the sheer number of gambling addicts they have decided that they have to work together.
They are afraid that by allowing any mobile device to become an online casino that people are going to use them as their prime source of gambling. Now children, teenagers, addicts, etc. will have access to gambling no matter where they are and they are just not comfortable with that. So they are jointly pushing legislation that will allow them to fight any kind of break in the law to make it easier to get to it on your phones.