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The ACMA has requested Australian internet service providers (ISPs) to block more nine gambling websites after investigations found out in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has ruled that Seven Network and Nine Network have each breached regulations by airing gambling advertisements during the Tokyo Olympics.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has requested Australian internet service providers to block six illegal offshore gambling and affiliate marketing websites.

Changes to Westpac Group's digital gambling block feature mean more customers can restrict their spending on gambling.

Wagering company Betchoice Corporation trading as Unibet has been convicted of posting three illegal gambling advertisements with court-imposed fines totalling $48,000, as a result of an investigation by Liquor & Gaming NSW. 

Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been requested to block more illegal offshore gambling websites by the telecommunications industry regulator ACMA as the authority continues its rigorous campaign against illegal gambling.

Engine Australia has been appointed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to develop and operate Australia’s first national self-exclusion register for online and phone gambling.

More than 80% of licensed pubs and clubs in South Australia have adopted Vix Vizion's Imagus face recognition technology, according to the company.

Reset Australia is demanding greater data protections for teenagers after it uncovered a Facebook loophole that allows teenagers to be profiled and targeted with advertising based on a range of age inappropriate interests, such as alcohol, smoking, gambling, and extreme weight loss.

With over 10% of gaming revenue coming from in-game gambling, such as loot boxes, the University of Sydney says game developers are operating in an increasingly competitive sphere, and are looking to in-game gambling to increase revenue, arguably to detriment of players.

Australian Internet Service Providers are set to begin blocking illegal offshore gambling websites under tough new powers mandated for the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) by the Federal Government.

A crackdown on prohibited and unlicensed offshore gambling sites by the Australian Communications and Media Authority has forced 33 prominent offshore wagering sites to withdraw from Australian markets over 12 months, according to a newly released report.

New rules to restrict gambling advertising during live streamed sport are under consideration by the communications regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which has now opened a public consultation process on the proposed rules.

A publication known as The Outline recently carried out what it called an investigation into how brands buy their way into well-known publications like Fast Company, Forbes and Huffington Post.

The Nine network has become the first television network to breach the rules forbidding gambling advertisements on children’s TV programmes.

There’s but hours to go until the iconic race that stops the nation starts, and here’s where you can watch the spectacle live and free.

Virtual Reality isn’t just for games in another dimension, but for gambling, too, with growth from "just over US$58.5 million this year, to just under US$520 million by 2021, representing an increase of 800%".

Online gambling is going gangbusters, with the spend to reach that of "digital goods and services worldwide".

After a long hiatus, IP Australia has granted a patent for a computer-related invention, in this case the software functionality in a gaming machine.

Fyzuntu is a simple but accessible dice game where you compete to get high scores while avoiding twos and fives.