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There are fourteen casino properties in Australia, spread across all eight states and territories: two in New South Wales, one in Victoria, four in Queensland, one each in Western Australia, South Australia and the ACT, and two each in Tasmania and the Northern Territory. Every one is land-based and licensed by its own state or territory regulator — there is no national casino regulator, and there is no online casino in this list, because an online casino service cannot lawfully be offered to people in Australia.
Australia licenses casinos one jurisdiction at a time. That single fact explains most of what is confusing about the sector: why the rules on cash, carded play and minimum bets differ between two properties owned by the same company, why a complaint about a Perth venue goes to a Western Australian department and a complaint about a Sydney venue goes to a New South Wales commission, and why no one page on any government website lists them all.
Published counts differ between thirteen and fourteen, depending on whether a second property in Tasmania or the Northern Territory is treated as a separate casino or as part of one licensed operation. This page lists fourteen properties and names the regulator for each, because the regulator is the only authority that settles the question. Where a property has no review on this site yet, the link goes to the venue's own page.
Not travelling to a venue?
Everything on this page is a licensed Australian property with a named regulator. If you are weighing up an online option instead, that is a different category with a different trade-off — compare the terms page, not the headline.
Grouped by licensing jurisdiction, with the regulator for each. This is the scannable version; the sections below add transport, what each property is actually like, and the rules that differ between them.
The Star Sydney sits in Pyrmont, a short walk or light-rail ride from Darling Harbour, and is the property most people mean when they search for a Sydney casino. It is a full-floor operation with a wide range of table games and electronic terminals, restaurants and a hotel, and it is the one to plan a visit around if you want the conventional casino floor.
Crown Sydney at Barangaroo is a genuinely different proposition and the reason this section is longer than the others. Its New South Wales licence is a restricted gaming licence: gaming is membership-based rather than open to walk-in patrons, and poker machines are not permitted at all. The licence also sets a floor under table minimums, which is unusual anywhere in the world — a point covered on our table minimums page, because it is the clearest published evidence of what an hour of play costs in Australia.
Both properties operate under the NSW Independent Casino Commission, which was created specifically to regulate the state's casinos. New South Wales has also moved further than most jurisdictions on carded play and cash limits, so expect account-based play and lower cash thresholds here than in other states.
Planning a Sydney visit: The Star is reachable on foot from the CBD and on the L1 light rail. Crown Sydney is at Barangaroo, also walkable from Wynyard. Both are in licensed precincts, so public transport beats parking on a weekend night.
Crown Melbourne on Southbank is Victoria's only casino and the largest single gaming property in the country, with a gaming floor, multiple restaurants, hotels and a conference precinct in one complex. It is a ten-minute walk from Flinders Street along the river and is served by the Southbank tram routes.
It is also the property with the most explicit published dress standard: smart casual at all times, footwear required, and a named list of unacceptable items including ripped or soiled clothing, work boots and singlets. If you are planning to eat in one of the restaurants and then walk onto the floor, dress for the restaurant — our dress code by venue page sets out why the standards inside one building differ.
Victoria's regulator is the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission, which was established following the state's royal commission into the operator and which publishes its directions and decisions. If you want to understand how Australian casino regulation actually works rather than how it is described, the VGCCC's published material is the most readable starting point in the country.
Queensland has more casinos than any other state, and they are genuinely different from each other rather than four versions of the same thing.
The Star Brisbane at Queen's Wharf is the newest casino floor in Australia, in the CBD and walkable from the Queen Street and South Bank precincts.
The Star Gold Coast at Broadbeach pairs the floor with a resort, and is the only Australian property publishing a dedicated dress-standard page.
The Ville Resort–Casino is a waterfront property on a smaller scale, aimed at regional North Queensland and visitors to Magnetic Island.
The Reef Hotel Casino is the smallest of the four, in the centre of Cairns and convenient to the Esplanade and the reef tour terminals.
One thing worth planning around in the tropical properties: the dress standard on footwear is applied more firmly in Cairns and Townsville than visitors expect, precisely because thongs are the local default. Closed shoes travel easily; a refused entry at the end of a drive does not.
Crown Perth is the state's only casino, at Burswood on the Swan River, with its own train station on the Armadale and Thornlie lines — one of the easiest casino approaches in the country by public transport. The property combines the gaming floor with hotels, a convention centre and a long list of restaurants, so most visits are not primarily gambling trips.
Western Australia is also the jurisdiction with the most distinctive gaming-machine law in the country: traditional poker machines are not permitted in the state's pubs and clubs, and the gaming machines at the casino are a different, approved type. The practical effect for a visitor is that Perth is the one Australian capital where "going to play the pokies" genuinely means going to the casino rather than to the local hotel.
The regulator is Racing, Gaming and Liquor within the Western Australian government, which handles casino licensing alongside the rest of the state's gambling and liquor regulation.
SkyCity Adelaide occupies the former railway station building on North Terrace, which makes it the most architecturally distinctive casino in Australia and also the one with the most separate rooms — a heritage layout rather than a single open floor. It is directly beside Adelaide Railway Station and a short walk from the Festival Centre and the Riverbank precinct.
Because the floor is divided across levels and rooms, it is worth asking at the entrance which rooms are open and what is running before you walk the building. Table availability in a multi-room property varies more by time of day than it does in a single-floor casino.
South Australia's casino regulation sits with Consumer and Business Services, which publishes the state's gambling licensing information and handles complaints.
Wrest Point at Sandy Bay in Hobart was the first legal casino in Australia, which is the single most useful fact about it: it set the pattern of the casino-plus-hotel-plus-restaurant property that every later Australian venue followed. It sits on the Derwent about ten minutes from the Hobart CBD by car or bus.
Country Club Tasmania at Prospect Vale, just outside Launceston, is the state's second property, built around a resort, golf course and gaming floor. It is the most resort-like of the fourteen and the one where the atmosphere is least like a city casino.
Both operate under Tasmanian Liquor and Gaming within the state treasury. Tasmania is one of the two jurisdictions where published casino counts differ, because the two properties have historically been operated under a single licensed arrangement — which is why a national count of thirteen and a count of fourteen can both be defended.
Mindil Beach Casino Resort in The Gardens, Darwin, is the territory's main property, next to the Mindil Beach markets and a short drive from the Darwin CBD. It is the venue behind the steadiest dress-code question in Australian search — whether thongs are acceptable — and the answer there, as everywhere, is to take closed shoes.
Lasseters in Alice Springs is the most remote casino in the country, in the Todd River precinct near the town centre, operating as a hotel and gaming property for Central Australia.
Casino Canberra in the ACT is the outlier of the fourteen and the most interesting licence in the country for anyone who likes table games: it has historically operated without poker machines, which makes it a table-games and electronic-terminal venue rather than a pokies floor. It is in the city centre, walkable from most of Civic.
If table games are the reason you are going, Canberra and Crown Sydney are the two properties where the floor is not dominated by machines. Our which casinos run which table game page covers what is reliably available and what to check before travelling.
This is the structural fact that makes the Australian sector unlike almost any other, and it is the reason a list of fourteen casinos understates gambling availability by an enormous margin. Outside Western Australia, poker machines are legal in pubs and clubs as well as casinos, under separate state licensing and in very large numbers — far more machines sit in hotels and licensed clubs across the country than sit in all fourteen casino properties combined.
Three practical consequences follow. A search for "pokies near me" in most Australian cities returns hotels and clubs rather than a casino. The rules differ: venue trading hours, machine configurations, cash access and local caps are set under the state's gaming-machine law rather than its casino law, and a casino operates under a separate and generally stricter licence. And complaints follow the venue type, so a problem at a pub goes to the state's gaming regulator for machines, not to a casino commission.
Our pokies venue guide covers the pub and club side, and RTP and house edge explains why the machine's published return matters more than the venue's décor.
Every property above is a physical building with a state or territory licence. No online casino appears because none can: under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 an online casino service cannot lawfully be offered to, or advertised to, people in Australia, and ACMA states that online casino games and online pokies offered to Australians are prohibited. There is no Australian online casino licence for any operator to hold, including the companies that hold real land-based licences above.
That last point is the one most often misread. A company can operate a lawful casino in Melbourne or Sydney and still be prohibited from offering online pokies or online table games to Australian customers. The land-based licence is not a partial online licence. Online wagering on sport and racing is a different regime again, licensed at state level, which is why you see those advertisements on television and never see an online casino advertisement.
What offshore sites offer instead is convenience in exchange for the entire protective structure described on this page: no Australian regulator, no complaints path that ends with an Australian body, and a cashier you cannot stand in front of. If you want to see exactly what that trade looks like in writing, an operator's own terms page names the overseas regulator that would hear a complaint — and reading that name before depositing is the whole decision. Our online legality guide covers the law in detail.
There is no federal casino regulator, so a complaint about a venue goes to the state or territory that licensed it. The sequence below is the one that works, and skipping the first step is why complaints stall.
This structure exists only for licensed Australian venues. It has no equivalent for an offshore website, where the only body able to hear a dispute is the overseas regulator named in that operator's own terms, and no Australian agency can recover funds.
Weighing up the alternative?
Fourteen licensed properties, eight regulators, one complaints path each. An offshore site has none of that. If you are going to compare, compare the terms.
Quick answers
Fourteen casino properties across all eight states and territories, on the grouping used by the licensing regulators. Published counts of thirteen also appear, because a second Tasmanian or Northern Territory property can be treated as part of one licensed operation rather than as a separate casino.
Sydney, with two: The Star Sydney at Pyrmont and Crown Sydney at Barangaroo. Queensland has the most of any state with four, but they are in four different cities.
Yes — all six states and both territories have at least one licensed casino property.
At most of the fourteen, yes, with current photo ID and clothing that meets the venue's dress standard. Crown Sydney is the exception: its NSW licence makes gaming membership-based rather than open to walk-in patrons, so check its access rules before you plan a visit.
Crown Sydney's restricted gaming licence does not permit poker machines, and Casino Canberra has historically operated without them. Western Australia is also distinctive: traditional poker machines are not permitted in the state's pubs and clubs, and Crown Perth's machines are a separate approved type.
No, and there cannot be. Under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 an online casino service cannot lawfully be offered to people in Australia, and no Australian online casino licence exists. Online wagering on sport and racing is a different, separately licensed activity.
To the venue first, in writing, then to the state or territory regulator that licensed it. There is no national casino regulator, so the right body depends on which jurisdiction the property sits in; each one is linked in the list above.
Primary sources
Licences, venue conditions and operating details change. These links go to the licensing regulator for each jurisdiction or to the venue itself, not to a third party.
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The venue hub, with the review for each property and the regulator for each state.
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Walking into Crown or The Star gets you an Australian regulator, a complaints path and a cashier you can stand in front of. An offshore site gets you none of those. If you still want to compare, start with its terms page.
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