The best casino to visit in Western Australia in 2026 — and what “best” can mean here

The honest answer to a Western Australian reader is a short one. There is exactly one legal casino operating in this state, and it has been the same venue for forty years. Crown Perth, on the Burswood peninsula across the Swan River from the CBD, is the only casino licence Western Australia has ever issued. Any comparison that promises a shortlist of land-based venues is, by definition, comparing one thing to itself.

The longer answer — and the one that earns the page its length — is what sits around that fact. Western Australia is the only Australian jurisdiction where poker machines stay banned outside the casino walls. Crown Perth carries the full weight of every table game, every poker machine and every high-limit room the state’s law allows. The resort around it puts three hotels, a theatre, restaurants and bars on the same site. Most readers searching this phrase are weighing the trip itself: how to get there, what to play, what the age rule actually allows and what an under-18 can and cannot do on the property. A second, smaller audience is weighing whether to skip the venue entirely and play online from Perth, and that is where the law draws a line the marketing never mentions.

This guide closes the practical half first — Crown Perth as a place to visit, the games on its floor and the rooms at its three hotels — then turns to the legal half, which is what an offshore casino actually costs an Australian reader. Eleven brands the ACMA has named in formal warnings are listed at the end for comparison, because the regulator’s own record is the only honest shortlist the market has. A closing section covers age limits, self-exclusion and where to get help.

Currency and licence claims verified 21 October 2026 against the ACMA’s published warning list and the Gaming and Wagering Commission of Western Australia’s register.

Crown Perth: the only land-based casino in Western Australia

Crown Perth sits at the eastern end of the Burswood peninsula, about five kilometres from Perth’s CBD across the Causeway. The address is Great Eastern Highway, Burswood WA 6100. The grounds sit between the Swan River and the Perth stadium precinct, which puts the casino within walking distance of Optus Stadium for a day that combines the two.

The licence has been held continuously since opening day. Crown Perth opened on 30 December 1985 as Burswood Island Casino. Ownership passed to Kerry Packer’s Publishing and Broadcasting Limited in 2004 and to James Packer’s Crown Limited in 2007. After the Perth Casino Royal Commission found Crown unsuitable to run the venue in March 2022, the operator worked through a two-year reform programme under an independent monitor, and in July 2025 the Gaming and Wagering Commission of Western Australia recommended the licence be retained. The resort has continued to trade without interruption through the reform period.

What that single licence carries is unusually concentrated by Australian standards. Western Australia has never allowed poker machines in pubs or clubs — they are legal only at Crown Perth. A reader used to the pokies lounges of a Sydney RSL or a Melbourne pub is looking at a state where every machine in the state sits on one floor.

The Crown Perth complex itself runs three hotels on the same site. Crown Towers Perth carries 500 rooms and sits as the premium tier, Crown Metropol Perth carries 405 rooms in a more contemporary tower and Crown Promenade Perth carries 291 rooms with a focus on the convention and short-stay market. A reader looking for accommodation near the casino does not need to weigh distance — every Crown room is, by definition, on the casino’s doorstep.

Around the gaming floor sit the restaurants, the riverside dining, the theatre that hosts the long-running show, a day spa and a nightclub. The venue runs an events calendar aimed at conferences and at the pre- and post-match crowd for Optus Stadium, which is across the river and reachable on foot for ticket-holders on event days.

The practical shape of a visit is straightforward. Crown Perth runs a regular shuttle from the city for patrons, and the venue is a short drive from Perth Airport. Parking is on-site for self-drivers, and the Burswood train station sits on the Armadale line within walking distance. Day visitors arrive in the morning and leave after the evening tables; overnight guests walk out of their room onto the gaming floor.

The roof carries the other venue that lands at the top of a reader’s search. Crown Perth’s rooftop bar — a space that has changed name and concept over the years — sits above the resort and looks back over the Swan River toward the CBD. The bar is open to non-gaming patrons, which is the practical reason it appears in a Western Australian casino guide at all: a reader does not need to enter the gaming floor to use it. The bar sits inside the resort’s identity rather than next to it, and the rooftop is one of the few vantage points in Perth that combines the river, the stadium and the casino in a single frame.

A reader choosing between a Perth bar with the river in view and a Perth bar with the casino in view ends up at the same address. That is the second meaning of “best casino in Western Australia” — the venue that, by being the only one, sets the bar for everyone else.

Games on the floor at Crown Perth

Crown Perth runs about 2,500 gaming machines and up to 350 approved table games across the resort. That figure is the upper bound the licence permits; the floor adjusts the mix to demand, and the premium rooms and the main gaming floor carry different balances of each.

Table games and the live-dealer rooms

Table games cover the international standard set. Baccarat, blackjack, roulette and craps all operate on the main floor at standard stakes. Sic bo and pai gow appear on the higher-limit side. The poker room sits separately, running cash games and tournaments, and is the venue’s only dedicated poker product.

Table stakes are set by the casino within a range the licence permits. The state itself imposes no maximum-bet limit on the casino floor, in contrast with the A$5.00 ceiling South Australia applies outside Adelaide Casino. That puts Crown Perth in a small group of Australian venues where a high-limit player is not constrained by a statutory stake cap — useful to know for a reader weighing the Western Australian trip against a comparable visit to Adelaide or Brisbane.

Gaming machines and pokies

The roughly 2,500 machines on the floor make Crown Perth the densest concentration of pokies in the state. Western Australia sets a minimum gaming-machine return-to-player rate of 90%, which is the statutory floor for any machine the venue offers. That minimum sits well above the 87.5% floor South Australia applies outside Adelaide Casino, and the gap is the difference between a state that treats the casino as an exception and a state that treats the casino as the rule.

A reader who has only played pokies in a pub or club on the east coast should expect a different machine mix. Crown Perth runs higher-denomination machines in the premium rooms and a broader low-denomination offering on the main floor. The RTP figures printed on each machine are auditable through the venue’s own compliance materials; readers who care about the per-title return should ask at the player’s desk rather than assume a uniform figure across the floor.

Game providers and the wider catalogue

The casino does not publish a full provider-by-provider catalogue of its electronic games in a way a reader can search from outside the venue. What it does make public is the high-level mix: a large installed base of international content, a handful of locally-themed machines and a rotating bank of new titles. Crown Resorts’ wider business gives a sense of the scale — its Melbourne and Perth floors share content across the group — but the operator does not break out the Perth catalogue by studio name the way an online casino does, and any list of “the pokies available at Crown Perth” outside the venue is, at best, a partial guess.

That opacity is itself information. An online casino publishes an RTP for every title and a volatility class for most of them. A land-based casino publishes neither, and the player trades the data for the regulated environment, the surveillance on the floor and the protection against a site walking off with a balance.

Live tables versus online live-dealer games

The phrase “live casino” lands differently in Perth than it does in an online lobby. At Crown Perth, “live” means the dealer standing at the table in front of the player. Online, the same phrase refers to a video feed from a studio, often in eastern Europe or Latin America, on which bets are placed remotely. The Crown Perth floor is the live version in the original sense of the term, with no video feed and no remote wagering. Readers who arrive at a search expecting one and find the other have usually been reading offshore marketing material.

Why “best” reduces to one venue in Western Australia

The premise of any ranking assumes more than one option exists. Western Australia’s casino market is a monopoly by design, not by accident. The state has not licensed a second casino venue, has not allowed poker machines outside the licence-holder, and has not authorised any online casino under any state regime. The Casino Act 1984 vests the licence in Crown Perth, and no competing application has been invited.

That structure produces a few consequences worth naming. There is no price competition between Western Australian casinos — Crown Perth sets its own table minimums, its own machine denominations and its own restaurant pricing without a domestic rival to discipline it. The state regulator does the disciplining instead, through the Gaming and Wagering Commission, but the commission’s reach is over conduct and licence conditions, not over commercial positioning.

For a reader, the comparison that matters is not “which Western Australian casino is better” but “is a Western Australian casino worth the trip at all”. That is the question the next section takes up, because the alternative — playing online from Perth — is the comparison an offshore marketing page wants the reader to skip.

The legal frame: why no online casino can rank beside Crown Perth

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 makes it an offence to provide online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to a person in Australia. The Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017 strengthened the Act and is the version the ACMA currently enforces. No state or territory in Australia issues a licence for an online casino product. A site that displays a Curaçao, Anjouan or Malta licence is not licensed to take Australian play; it is licensed in the jurisdiction that issued the certificate and is operating outside Australian law when it accepts an Australian customer.

The ACMA — the Australian Communications and Media Authority — is the regulator that enforces the prohibition. It investigates complaints, issues formal warnings to operators and directs Australian internet service providers to block illegal sites. As of a round reported on 26 June 2026, the ACMA had asked ISPs to block 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites since the first blocking request in November 2019. More than 230 unlicensed services had left the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017.

That number is not a static total. The ACMA’s blocking round in June 2026 added twelve more domains in a single batch: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz.com, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino. A reader who notes a site vanishing from their browser may be looking at the result of one of these rounds. A reader who notes a site simply not loading on their home network should not assume their ISP is doing them a favour — the site may have been blocked, or it may have moved to a new domain after the old one was added to the list.

The blocking record implies a rate worth naming. Over the roughly six-and-a-half-year run from the first blocking request in November 2019 to the June 2026 figure of 1,751 blocked sites, the ACMA has added on average about twenty-eight sites per week to the blocking list — give or take the lumpiness of a single batched round versus a quieter week. That figure is the regulator’s own throughput, not a measure of how many sites exist. New domains replace blocked ones at varying rates, and a site the ACMA names today is not the site an Australian is most likely to encounter tomorrow.

The losses flowing to the illegal market give that throughput its weight. H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 report estimates Australians lose about A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites. The same report puts the share of gambling going through legal channels at 64%, down from 74% in 2021 — a ten-point slide in four years that puts the size of the offshore market at roughly A$1.4 billion a year in redirected spend.

The enforcement record is the only honest shortlist of “best online casinos for Australian players” the market actually has, and it is a list of warnings, not recommendations. Eleven brands appear in the next section in the order the regulator published them.

The regulator’s record on offshore brands

Each brand below is named because the ACMA itself issued a formal warning over it. The warnings cover online casino games and online pokies offered to Australians, both prohibited services. None of the operators holds an Australian licence for the activity it is warning against — the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 makes one impossible to obtain.

A reader looking for a “best online casino in Australia” list will not find one of these in a positive sense. They appear here as the regulator’s own evidence that the marketing exists, that Australians use it, and that the regulator has acted against it. The order follows the ACMA’s own publication, not any judgement about quality.

A note on what the warnings do and do not imply. A formal warning is the ACMA’s first public step; it puts the operator on notice that further action — including blocking, civil penalty proceedings or referral to other agencies — will follow if the conduct continues. It is not a criminal finding. It is also not the only sanction available: the ACMA can direct ISPs to block domains without a formal warning, and has done so for the 1,751 sites in its running total. Operators can rebrand or move jurisdictions to reset the warning record, which is one of the reasons the ACMA names operators (the corporate entity behind the site) as well as brands.

RocketPlay

The ACMA issued a formal warning to Pulsup Ltd in March 2026 over Rocketplay.com.au. The same brand had earlier been the subject of a May 2022 warning to Dama N.V., one of the better-known Curaçao-based casino groups, indicating the brand moved between operators over the four-year gap rather than closing down. The domain Rocketplay.com.au is the Australian-facing version; the parent brand has run on offshore domains since at least the early 2020s. Anyone searching for an Australian-facing site under this name arrives at a page the regulator has explicitly named twice.

Level Up Casino

Dama N.V. received a May 2022 formal warning covering six brands in one batch — Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos. The six were named together because they shared an operator, not because they were the only brands the operator ran; Dama N.V.’s portfolio over the period ran into the dozens. Level Up Casino is the brand that appears most often in the listings that surface an Australian reader, in part because the name reads as benign and in part because the listings cite Australian-facing traffic.

Woo Casino

Woo Casino is the subject of a March 2025 formal warning to Dama N.V., the second time the operator appears on the ACMA’s list under a different brand name. The brand positions itself around a slot-heavy catalogue with a strong welcome package; the regulatory record positions it as one of the more-warned operators in the ACMA’s list, alongside its sister brands.

Spirit Casino

Spirit Casino carries a May 2025 formal warning to Dama N.V. — the third Dama N.V. brand on this page, after Level Up and Woo. The pattern matters: when an operator accumulates multiple warnings, the ACMA’s record is the cumulative case, not three independent incidents. Each warning is published separately because each brand is treated separately for marketing purposes; an Australian reader looking at Dama N.V.’s portfolio is looking at a single corporate entity the regulator has named repeatedly.

National Casino

National Casino is the subject of a July 2025 formal warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. The warning was part of a two-brand batch that month, with National Casino and Bizzo Casino named together. The branding — clean lines, sports-and-casino hybrid positioning — is typical of the cross-jurisdiction groups that target Australian traffic through affiliate sites.

Bizzo Casino

Bizzo Casino carries the same July 2025 warning as National Casino, both naming Consolutetish S.R.L. as the operator. Bizzo Casino had previously been named in a 2022 formal warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V., a separate corporate lineage the ACMA tracks because the brand moved between operators rather than disappearing. The dual-warning record is one of the cleaner cases of an Australian-facing brand surviving a regulator’s intervention by reincorporating.

Ignition Casino

The ACMA issued a July 2025 formal warning to Bamboo Media over Ignition Casino. Ignition positions itself for an Australian-facing market through affiliate sites that describe it as one of the better-known offshore brands accepting Australian players. The warning sits alongside the National Casino and Bizzo Casino warnings issued the same month, which is the regulator’s way of saying the offshore targeting of Australia did not pause while one warning was being processed.

Instant Casino

Instant Casino is the subject of a February 2025 formal warning to EOD Code SRL, the earliest 2025 warning on this list. The brand runs a sportsbook-casino hybrid, with marketing that has historically emphasised crypto deposits and fast withdrawals. Both are explicit no-gos for an Australian-licensed operator — credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency have been banned as payment for licensed online wagering since 11 June 2024, with penalties up to A$247,500 for operators that take them — which puts Instant Casino’s value proposition at odds with what an Australian player is allowed to use at home.

Jackbit

The ACMA issued an April 2026 formal warning to Ryker B.V. over Jackbit and CasinOK, named together in the same notice. Jackbit runs a sportsbook-casino hybrid positioning and is among the more recent entrants on the regulator’s list, which puts it on a shorter paper record than the older Dama N.V. brands but on a fresh one in the current enforcement cycle.

Casino Intense

Casino Intense carries an April 2025 formal warning to Sterplay Holding Ltd. The brand’s footprint is narrower than the bigger Dama N.V. properties; the ACMA’s warning record is correspondingly narrower. A reader who has only seen the brand on one affiliate list has likely seen the only affiliate list that names it.

Sky Crown

Sky Crown is the subject of a formal warning to Hollycorn N.V., published in September 2022 and named alongside Blue Leo as a Hollycorn property. The warning is among the older entries on this list and shows up in the listings an Australian reader encounters under both brand names. Hollycorn N.V. is a Curaçao-licensed operator with a wide portfolio; Sky Crown is the brand most often cited in Australian-facing affiliate material.

What a Crown Perth visit costs in time and money

Crown Perth is a destination rather than a stop, and the trip’s economics are simpler than an offshore site’s bonus terms.

A day trip from a Perth suburb covers fuel or transit, a meal on-site and the gambling budget the player sets for themselves. Crown does not publish an entry fee for the gaming floor; access is by age and ID check at the door. The casino does not charge a cover at the rooftop bar, which makes the bar accessible as a standalone venue rather than as a gaming-floor by-product.

An overnight trip adds a hotel rate. Crown Towers Perth carries the premium pricing, Crown Metropol and Crown Promenade carry the mid-market tiers, and the three sit a minute’s walk from each other. A reader comparing Crown to a CBD hotel should remember that the casino side of the equation is what they are paying for; a CBD hotel at the same rate gives a reader no gaming access and no rooftop bar.

A reader used to an online casino’s “bonus” pricing should reset the comparison entirely. There is no wagering requirement at Crown Perth. The amount deposited at the cashier’s desk is the amount available to play. There is no max-cashout cap, no game weighting, no bonus-to-real-money conversion and no expiry clock. The cost of the trip is the cash the player walks in with; the upside is the cash the player walks out with; the house edge on each game is the only friction in between.

That trade is the one the offshore marketing page does not want the reader to think about. A welcome bonus worth A$1,000 with a 40x wagering requirement is A$40,000 of required turnover, on which the house edge does the same work it would have done on a A$40,000 deposit. The bonus is a delay on real-money play, not a gift. The only value a welcome bonus reliably carries is the entertainment value of the play it forces; the cash value is the marketing word applied to a margin the player would have paid anyway.

A land-based casino makes that arithmetic visible by taking it out of the bonus structure. The house edge is what it is, the player sees it on the table or on the machine’s paytable, and the trip ends when the budget ends. That is the practical case for visiting rather than playing offshore.

The case the page closes with — and the case it does not

The case for visiting Crown Perth is straightforward. It is the legal answer, the only one Western Australia has. The games run on a regulated floor under surveillance, the cashier pays out what the floor wins, the cashier’s cage is bound by Australian consumer law and the venue is bound by the Casino Act 1984 and the Gaming and Wagering Commission’s conditions. If a machine malfunctions, the regulator has a process for it. If a payout is disputed, the regulator hears the complaint.

The case the page does not make is the case for playing offshore instead. The marketing case is built — every affiliate site an Australian reader lands on builds it — around bonuses and game counts and “VIP” tiers. The legal case against it is the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 and the ACMA’s enforcement record. The two cases are not in balance; one is the law and the other is the marketing of services the law prohibits. A reader who treats the marketing as a competing case is treating a flyer as a peer to a statute.

Responsible gambling: the rules around the play

The Gaming and Wagering Commission of Western Australia is the regulator for gambling in the state, administered through the Racing, Gaming and Liquor division of the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries. It sets the rules Crown Perth operates under and hears complaints the venue does not resolve.

Age limits and entry conditions

The minimum age to enter the gaming floor at Crown Perth is 18. The minimum age to enter the casino’s other facilities — the bars, the restaurants, the hotel — is also 18 after 22:00; under-18s accompanied by an adult can enter the non-gaming areas during the day. The boundary is enforced at the door, with photo ID required. A reader bringing a teenager to dinner at a Crown restaurant should expect to be asked for ID at the entrance and should expect under-18s to be turned away from any area where gaming machines are visible.

The age rule is consistent across Australian jurisdictions. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 sets the same minimum for online wagering, and licensed bookmakers operating out of the Northern Territory verify age at signup. The offshore casinos the ACMA has warned against do not enforce the Australian age limit on an Australian-facing site — verification is the operator’s choice, not a regulator’s demand, and the regulator that would demand it is the regulator that has told the operator to stop.

Self-exclusion and the registers that exist

BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, has been live since August 2023 and binds every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering service. A punter who signs up with BetStop is excluded from every Australian-licensed bookmaker simultaneously, and the exclusion periods range from three months to a lifetime.

BetStop does not bind offshore casinos. An Australian-licensed exclusion has no effect on a Curaçao-licensed operator’s site, and the operator has no obligation to honour it. The exclusion is enforceable only against the entities that opted into the Australian regulatory framework, which by definition excludes the brands the ACMA has warned against.

Crown Perth runs its own self-exclusion programme for the venue itself. The terms cover entry to the gaming floor, access to loyalty programmes and the use of credit at the cashier’s desk. A reader who has self-excluded from Australian-licensed wagering and is visiting Western Australia should treat Crown Perth’s programme as a separate step, because the two regimes do not talk to each other automatically.

Where to get help

The National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858, free and available 24 hours a day, with chat available through Gambling Help Online. The line covers all of Australia and is the first call for a reader who needs to talk about a gambling problem now, whether the gambling happens at Crown Perth, on an Australian-licensed bookmaker or on an offshore site.

State-level services in Western Australia run through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, which administers gambling harm-minimisation programmes alongside the Gaming and Wagering Commission’s licensing work. A Western Australian reader looking for face-to-face counselling rather than a phone line should ask the helpline for the local referral, which the line is set up to provide.

Payment rules worth knowing

Credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency are banned as payment for licensed online wagering since 11 June 2024, with penalties up to A$247,500 for operators that accept them. The legal deposit routes for licensed wagering are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. A licensed bookmaker’s cashier’s desk will not offer a credit card option, and an Australian reader who sees a “deposit with crypto” button on a site is looking at a site that has decided to operate outside the Australian rules.

Crown Perth’s cashier takes cash, debit cards and EFTPOS. Credit cards are accepted through the on-site ATMs for cash advances, which is a separate transaction with its own interest cost from the card issuer — a reader should treat that as a personal borrowing decision rather than a payment method. The land-based cashier is the simplest payment environment in Australian gambling: walk in with cash, walk out with cash or with a ticket redeemable at the cashier’s desk.

Tax on winnings

Gambling winnings of a recreational player are not assessable income in Australia, under section 6-5 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. Losses are not deductible, either. The rule assumes the player is not carrying on a business of gambling, which a recreational Crown Perth visitor is not. A reader with a question about their own situation should check with the Australian Taxation Office, because the ATO is the only authority that can answer for a specific case.

The wider Australian casino map for context

Crown Perth is the only Western Australian venue, but it is not the only Australian casino. Three others set the context a reader comparing options might find useful.

Adelaide Casino (South Australia)

Adelaide Casino, marketed commercially as SkyCity Adelaide, sits inside the heritage-listed Adelaide railway station on North Terrace. It is South Australia’s sole licensed casino under the Casino Act 1997, with 90 gaming tables and 950 gaming machines. The licence was extended in October 2013 to 30 June 2035, allowing expansion to up to 200 tables and 1,500 machines subject to redevelopment. The A$330 million Riverbank precinct redevelopment of 2015-2021 added the EOS by SkyCity tower with 120 hotel rooms and expanded gaming space, opening in 2021.

South Australia imposes a minimum RTP of 87.5% on gaming machines outside the casino and a general A$5.00 maximum bet in those venues. Adelaide Casino itself has no maximum-bet limit, in line with the licence structure. The state had 11,672 gaming machines outside Adelaide Casino in 471 venues in September 2023, with gaming-machine losses totalling about A$0.92 billion in 2022-23, equivalent to roughly A$497 per adult.

Treasury Brisbane and the Star Brisbane (Queensland)

Treasury Casino, in Brisbane’s historic Treasury Building, opened as a casino in April 1995 and ran 80 gaming tables and over 1,300 gaming machines across three levels until it closed on 25 August 2024 to make way for the new Star casino at Queen’s Wharf. The Star Brisbane began a staged opening at the A$3.6 billion Queen’s Wharf Brisbane precinct on 29 August 2024, with the main casino floor and premium gaming rooms opening first, against a backdrop of concerns about Star Entertainment Group’s licence position.

Queensland had 21,122 gaming machines operating in 351 venues in October 2023. The Star Brisbane was developed jointly by Star Entertainment Group and Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, and the venue represents a step-change in scale from the Treasury Casino it replaced. A reader considering the trip from Perth to Brisbane should check the licence position of the operator before booking — Star Entertainment’s regulatory record is live rather than settled.

What the comparison does not change

The wider map does not change the Western Australian answer. Crown Perth is the only legal casino in Western Australia, and the law does not bend because Adelaide has a casino or because Brisbane has a new one. A reader weighing a domestic trip across states is choosing between three monopoly licences; a reader weighing an offshore casino is choosing between the ACMA’s enforcement record and the marketing of brands on it.

A short comparison of the regulator’s shortlist

The table below lists the eleven brands the ACMA has named in formal warnings for offering prohibited online casino services to Australians. The “ACMA action” column gives the operator the ACMA named and the date of the warning as the regulator published it. The “operator named by the ACMA” column gives the corporate entity behind the brand, where it differs from the brand itself. The “subject support” column reflects what the listings that surface these brands in Australian searches actually say, rather than the operators’ own claims about being licensed to serve Australians.

Every brand in the table is prohibited from offering online casino games to Australians under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. A reader who arrives at one through an Australian-facing affiliate site is being offered a service the regulator has named. None of them carries a different status under Australian law; the only difference between them is the date the regulator caught up with what the marketing was already doing.

Frequently asked questions

What is the main casino in Western Australia?

Crown Perth is the only licensed casino in Western Australia. It sits on the Burswood peninsula across the Swan River from the CBD, has operated since 30 December 1985 under successive owners, and is the only venue in the state where poker machines are legal.

Where is Crown Perth located?

Crown Perth is at Great Eastern Highway, Burswood WA 6100, on the Burswood peninsula east of Perth’s CBD across the Causeway. The site sits between the Swan River and the Optus Stadium precinct and is reachable by car, by the Armadale line train to Burswood station, or by the casino’s own shuttle services.

What is the minimum age to enter Crown Perth?

The minimum age to enter the gaming floor is 18. Under-18s accompanied by an adult can enter the non-gaming areas during the day, but anyone under 18 is barred from the gaming floor and from any area where gaming machines are visible. Photo ID is required at the entrance.

Does Crown Perth offer table games such as blackjack and baccarat?

Crown Perth runs baccarat, blackjack, roulette and craps on the main floor, with sic bo, pai gow and higher-limit games in the premium rooms. The casino is licensed for up to 350 approved table games and operates about 2,500 gaming machines across the resort, with no statutory maximum-bet limit on the floor itself.

Are there hotels within walking distance of Crown Perth?

Three hotels sit on the Crown Perth site itself: Crown Towers Perth with 500 rooms, Crown Metropol Perth with 405 rooms and Crown Promenade Perth with 291 rooms. All three are within a minute’s walk of the gaming floor, which means the closest hotels to Crown Perth are the ones inside the complex.

Can Australians legally play at an online casino instead of visiting Crown Perth?

No. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, strengthened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, prohibits offering online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to anyone in Australia. No state or territory licenses it, and the ACMA enforces the prohibition by issuing formal warnings and directing Australian ISPs to block illegal sites. Offshore sites accepting Australian customers are operating outside Australian law.