New reforms in Australia mean that online gambling sites operating in the country will be banned from offering lines of credit and operators will no longer be permitted to advertise pay-day loans.
Also bookmakers will be compelled to provide activity statements to the government that show each player’s wins and losses.
Alan Tudge, Australia's human services minister, held a ministerial meeting on problem gambling to outline the plans. “I think that it is unconscionable for a company to provide lines of credit for them to continue to bet," he said.
The government wants to see a national self-exclusion registry up and running by September of this year, he said, so that players could ban themselves from gambling sites for periods ranging from three months to a life-long exclusion.
Australia is still seeking ways to prevent internet service providers and payment processors from accessing its citizens.
