In other words, it should be seen as part of the solution, in promoting safer gambling practices. Banning it will not achieve this objective. Those offshore will be permitted to use the service. Those in Australia will not. Operators are excused if they do not know if a customer is located in Australia AND if they could not determine a user's location using reasonable diligence.
Problem gamblers are more likely than most to falsify their locations.
The IIA, claims that for a range of technical reasons, the location of a user will be impossible to know. This means that operators will be taking a big risk in operating a service in Australia, because there will be hundreds of thousands of users located within Australia that will appear to be accessing the Net from overseas servers. An operator would then be left with non-technical means of establishing location, but the only practicable means might ultimately come down to a promise by a user that they are not in Australia. Problem gamblers are not likely to abide by such a declaration, which raises the question, is the legislation likely to protect those whom it purports to protect. Current Australian gambling regulations which apply to online gambling sites are widely regarded as being the toughest in the world.