Brisbane’s casino in 2026: the venue on the river, the law that bans the rest

Updated September 2026

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Some search terms ask for a ranking. This one does not. Anyone typing “best casino in brisbane” wants a working answer: where the doors are, what is on the floor, how old a visitor has to be, and which hotels sit close enough to walk back from a long session. They do not want a list of offshore betting sites dressed up as options, because Australia does not let that product exist in the first place. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 prohibits offering online casino games to anyone in this country, and no state or territory issues the licence an offshore site claims it has. So the honest answer to the question is short: there is one casino in Brisbane, it is called The Star Brisbane, it sits inside the Queen’s Wharf precinct on the river, and every other name a comparison might put beside it is a site the Australian Communications and Media Authority has already acted against. The rest of this page sets out what that means in practice.

The data behind this page was checked against the ACMA’s published register and the relevant state gambling authorities on 25 September 2026.

The games that actually run on a Brisbane floor

A “best casino” question usually turns into a games question first, because that is what a visitor feels when they walk in. The Star Brisbane’s main gaming floor and premium gaming rooms opened first in the staged launch of Queen’s Wharf that began on 29 August 2024, and the catalogue that opened with them is the catalogue that is still there. The floor carries the four table-game families a serious punter expects to find in an Australian casino: blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps. Around the tables sit the electronic gaming machines Australians call pokies, plus a deeper slots catalogue under the international heading. A player asking specifically about “brisbane casino baccarat” or “brisbane casino roulette” is asking whether a real felt game exists for the stake they had in mind — yes, on the main floor, with the higher-limit rooms above it.

The pokies question deserves its own answer because it carries the most weight in this market. Queensland ran 21,122 gaming machines in 351 licensed venues as at October 2023, and the Star’s casino floor is the largest single concentration of them inside one building in the state. South of the border, by way of comparison, South Australia had 11,672 machines outside Adelaide Casino across 471 venues the same month. So a Brisbane visitor is not stepping into the average Australian pokie experience. They are stepping into the densest one.

What the catalogue does not include is worth naming too. The Star does not run an online casino product, because no Australian licence would let it. The “brisbane casino online pokies” phrasing in a search box is, in this country, a search for something that has been prohibited since 2001 and tightened since 2017. It returns a list of offshore sites, several of which the ACMA has issued formal warnings against, and none of which a Queensland player can reach on a normal Australian internet connection.

What runs, what does not, and why it matters

A practical visitor’s checklist, in the order a punter usually works through it:

• Blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps run on the main gaming floor. Higher limits and private salons sit one level up.
• Pokies and electronic gaming machines run across the broader floor. The Star’s machine count exceeds anything a single suburban club can field.
• Online casino games, online pokies and in-play betting do not exist under an Australian licence. Anything offered under those headings from an offshore site is operating outside the IGA.
• The rooftop bar the city is increasingly known for sits at the precinct level, above the gaming floor and the hotel towers. It is part of the same venue, not a separate licensed operation.

How Brisbane’s casino ended up at Queen’s Wharf

The history is short and recent, and it explains almost everything about what the building is in 2026. Brisbane’s earlier casino, the Treasury Casino, opened in April 1995 inside the city’s heritage Treasury Building on George Street, and ran for nearly thirty years as a three-level gaming emporium — 80 gaming tables, over 1,300 gaming machines, a hotel, six restaurants, five bars and a nightclub. Star Entertainment Group operated it. The Treasury closed on 25 August 2024 to make way for the new Star Brisbane at Queen’s Wharf, which began its staged opening four days later on 29 August 2024. The development cost the development consortium around A$3.6 billion, and the casino sits inside a precinct jointly built by Star Entertainment Group and the Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises.

A new venue of that size rarely opens without a question mark attached, and Queen’s Wharf had one. In late 2022 the Queensland Government, acting on an independent review by former Court of Appeal judge Robert Gotterson, found Star Entertainment unsuitable to hold its Queensland casino licences after concluding the group had misled regulators and failed its anti-money-laundering duties. Star was fined $100 million on 9 December 2022, with a 90-day suspension of the Treasury Brisbane and Star Gold Coast licences deferred to 1 December 2023 to allow remediation. The Star Brisbane opened amid that unresolved licence question, and the question is part of what a visitor is walking into — a venue whose operator is still under regulatory scrutiny for the way it ran the casino it replaced.

What a visitor needs on the door

A few details settle the practical side of the question before any games are mentioned:

• Address: the Star Brisbane sits inside the Queen’s Wharf precinct on the Brisbane River, walking distance from the CBD.
• Minimum age: 18. The federal and state frameworks align on this, and identification is checked on entry.
• Dress and entry standards: standard casino dress code applies; entry is refused to anyone who cannot produce acceptable identification.
• Opening hours: the main gaming floor runs extended hours typical of Australian state-licensed casinos; premium rooms run on more restricted schedules.

None of that is exotic. It is what every Australian state-licensed casino does, and it is the only set of rules a Brisbane casino operates under.

Why no offshore site belongs in this comparison

A reader who lands on a “best casino in brisbane” page from outside Australia might reasonably expect a comparison table. A reader inside Australia should expect something different. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, strengthened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, makes it an offence to provide online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to a person physically in Australia. No state or territory issues a licence for those products. The licences a Curaçao-registered or Cyprus-registered operator displays on its homepage are licences to operate in those jurisdictions, not in Australia, and an Australian player is not a customer those licences cover.

That is why every “online casino” name a Brisbane search returns is a name the ACMA has already touched. The agency investigates complaints, issues formal warnings, and directs Australian internet service providers to block sites that continue to serve Australian customers after being warned. The numbers behind the enforcement record are the cleanest way to see the scale.

According to the ACMA as reported in June 2026, a total of 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites had been blocked since the first blocking request in November 2019, and more than 230 unlicensed gambling services had left the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017. In a single blocking round reported on 26 June 2026 the ACMA asked Australian ISPs to block 12 more sites: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz.com, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino. H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 report estimates that Australians lose about A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, and that the share of gambling going through legal channels fell from 74% in 2021 to 64%. Both numbers belong to the same picture: a market that has tightened its law, and a set of operators that keeps trying to serve it anyway.

The arithmetic behind those numbers is what this page contributes to the question, beyond restating the enforcement record. The first ACMA blocking request was issued in November 2019. By June 2026 — roughly six and a half years later — the running total of blocked sites had reached 1,751. The implied blocking rate, across the full enforcement window, is in the order of 260 sites per year, or just over five per week. The rate is not flat: the early years were lighter, and the agency has issued multi-site blocking rounds more often as the caseload has grown. Read as a band, the picture is somewhere between four and seven blocked sites per working week across the post-2019 window, with the recent rounds clustering at the higher end. The exact weekly figure moves round to round; the band itself is what the cumulative number supports.

What that means at the player end

The enforcement hits the provider, not the punter. The IGA targets the operator, not the individual player sitting at a screen in Brisbane. Two consequences follow from that, and they matter more than the headline figure:

• An offshore site gives no Australian consumer protection. There is no Australian complaints body, no local regulator to escalate to, and no Australian court order a player can rely on if a withdrawal is refused or a bonus is voided. The site’s own terms page is the entire law of the relationship.
• A site can be blocked with a balance still on it. The block happens at the ISP level, which means the operator can vanish from an Australian IP address overnight while a real-money balance sits inside the account. The player has no Australian route to recover it.

Both points come up again in the operator section below, because both points recur in the warnings the ACMA has actually issued.

What the ACMA’s formal warnings cover

A formal warning under the IGA is not a prosecution. It is a published step that gives the operator a chance to stop serving Australian customers before the ACMA moves to a blocking request. The published warnings are public record, and they are the cleanest picture of which offshore brands have been told, in writing, that what they are doing is prohibited in Australia. The set relevant to a Brisbane reader includes the following, in the order the ACMA itself has published them:

• In May 2022 the ACMA issued a formal warning to Dama N.V. covering six casino brands: Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos.
• In September 2022 the ACMA issued a formal warning to Hollycorn N.V. over its Sky Crown and Blue Leo casino services.
• In February 2025 the ACMA issued a formal warning to EOD Code SRL over Instant Casino.
• In March 2025, the ACMA formally warned Dama N.V. concerning Woo Casino.
• In April 2025 the ACMA issued a formal warning to Sterplay Holding Ltd over Casino Intense.
• The ACMA also issued a formal warning to Dama N.V. regarding Spirit Casino in May 2025.
• In July 2025 the ACMA issued formal warnings to Bamboo Media over Ignition Casino and to Consolutetish S.R.L. over National Casino and Bizzo Casino; Bizzo Casino had already been the subject of a 2022 formal warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V.
• In March 2026 the ACMA issued a formal warning to Pulsup Ltd over Rocketplay.com.au.
• In April 2026 the ACMA issued a formal warning to Ryker B.V. over Jackbit and CasinOK.

Two things are worth noticing in that list. First, several operators have been warned more than once: Dama N.V. across two years and four brands, TechSolutions over Bizzo before Consolutetish S.R.L. was warned over the same brand, and Rocketplay surfaced under a different parent entity after the original 2022 warning. The pattern is what the ACMA’s enforcement record implies — a warning is not the end of the story, and brand and operator do not always stay matched across the lifespan of a warning. Second, the list is current. The most recent published warning in this set is from April 2026, two months before the data snapshot this page is checked against. The list is not a closed file.

The land-based shape of Australian casino gambling

The Star Brisbane is the only licensed casino in Queensland, and it is one of a small number of state-licensed casinos across the country. A reader who knows only the Brisbane venue often does not know how it sits inside the national picture, and a brief frame helps.

The Star Brisbane is the Queensland casino. Adelaide Casino, known commercially as SkyCity Adelaide, sits in the heritage-listed Adelaide railway station building on North Terrace, runs 90 gaming tables and 950 gaming machines, and is the sole licensed casino in South Australia under the Casino Act 1997. A 2015–2021 Riverbank precinct redevelopment of Adelaide Casino, worth about A$330 million, added the EOS by SkyCity tower, which opened in 2021 with 120 hotel rooms and expanded gaming space. Adelaide Casino’s table-game monopoly in South Australia was extended to 30 June 2035 under a licence formalised on 11 October 2013, which also allows the casino to expand to up to 200 gaming tables and 1,500 gaming machines subject to redevelopment. Casino Canberra, in the Canberra CBD, was the first legal casino in the ACT, built on land excised from Glebe Park under a 99-year lease, and is the only casino in Australia not licensed to operate poker machines. Casino Canberra is regulated under the ACT’s Casino Control Act 2006 and Casino Control Regulation 2006, administered by the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission.

Across that small licensed set, three structural points hold:

• Every state-licensed casino is a single, named venue in a single city. There is no chain of Australian casinos with multiple state licences under one operator.
• Each state-licensed casino is the only casino in its state or territory. Adelaide is the only one in South Australia; Casino Canberra is the only one in the ACT; the Star Brisbane is the only one in Queensland.
• The licensing authority is the state or territory gambling regulator, not the federal government. The IGA covers online, but the casino floor itself sits under state-level Casino Control Acts.

The roof of the Star Brisbane carries one further point worth naming: a rooftop bar. Brisbane’s casino rooftop bar is part of the Queen’s Wharf precinct and runs under the same Queensland licence as the gaming floor underneath it. A reader who searched specifically for a casino rooftop bar in Brisbane is searching for a feature that exists, not for a separate venue.

Player wellbeing around the Brisbane casino

A “best casino” page that names a venue without naming the help available to a player who needs it has left something important off the page. The Australian framework provides three things every visitor and every Australian online customer should know about.

Minimum age is 18 across every Australian gambling product, casino floor and online wagering service alike. Identification is checked at the casino door, and an Australian online wagering account cannot be opened without passing the same age verification at signup. The number is not negotiable and does not vary by state.

BetStop, Australia’s National Self-Exclusion Register, has been live since 21 August 2023 and is run by the ACMA. BetStop covers Australian-licensed online and telephone wagering services — the licensed bookmakers under Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission oversight, including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes, and the equivalent services in other states. What BetStop does not cover is in-venue gambling, including casino floors. An ACT resident wanting to self-exclude from Casino Canberra has to use the ACT Gambling Harm Prevention team’s own self-exclusion process, available for periods of 6 months to 3 years. A Brisbane visitor who wants the same kind of exclusion at The Star Brisbane goes through the Queensland harm-prevention channel, not BetStop.

The ACT Gambling Support Service runs a free, 24/7 Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, offering telephone, online and face-to-face gambling and financial counselling, funded by the ACT Gambling Harm Prevention and Mitigation Fund. The same number works nationally as a gateway to Gambling Help Online, and the service is free from any Australian phone. State-level services run alongside it.

The credit-card and crypto rule

A separate piece of the player-protection framework matters because it tells an Australian punter, in one sentence, which sites are operating outside the local rules. Credit cards, credit-related products and digital currency have been banned as payment for licensed online wagering since 11 June 2024, with penalties of up to $247,500 for operators who take them. Legal deposit routes for licensed wagering are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. An offshore casino that asks an Australian customer for a credit card or a crypto deposit is, by definition, not operating under Australian rules, regardless of any other licence it advertises.

The brands the ACMA has warned, in plain prose

Eleven brands have been named in formal warnings published by the ACMA, and they recur in the search results that surface when a Brisbane reader looks for an “online casino”. The names below are reproduced because the ACMA itself published them. They are not options for a Brisbane punter. None of them is licensed to offer online casino games to anyone in Australia, and the ACMA’s published position is that each of them has been warned, in writing, for doing so.

RocketPlay

RocketPlay is the first brand on the list because it is the most recently warned. The ACMA issued a formal warning to Pulsup Ltd over Rocketplay.com.au in March 2026. The brand is not new to the ACMA’s register: Dama N.V. was warned in May 2022 with Rocketplay named as one of six brands covered by that action. Two operators, two warnings, same brand — the kind of pattern that suggests Rocketplay has not stopped serving Australian customers simply because an earlier warning was issued. As noted, Australian law prohibits online casino games, regardless of any offshore licence, and this site’s payment methods are incompatible with the June 2024 credit-card and crypto restrictions.

Level Up Casino

Level Up Casino was named in the May 2022 ACMA warning to Dama N.V., which covered six brands in a single action. Listings on en.wikipedia.org and vgccc.vic.gov.au have carried Level Up in material that surfaced in the research window. Regardless of the licence it displays, this site is not authorised to operate in Australia, and its current deposit options remain inconsistent with the national credit and crypto ban for wagering.

Woo Casino

Woo Casino is the second brand in Dama N.V.’s second round of warnings. The ACMA issued a further formal warning to Dama N.V. over Woo Casino in March 2025, two and a half years after the original May 2022 warning. The site has appeared on en.wikipedia.org in the research window. Since no Australian licence applies, the brand’s continued presence on affiliate sites throughout 2025 contradicts the regulatory warnings it has already received.

Spirit Casino

Spirit Casino is the third brand in Dama N.V.’s second round of warnings. The ACMA issued a further formal warning to Dama N.V. over Spirit Casino in May 2025. It has not surfaced in third-party listings under the brand name in the research window, which may suggest a lower profile compared to its sibling brands. As with all offshore operators, it lacks the local authorisation required to serve Australian customers legally.

National Casino

National Casino sits at the Consolutetish S.R.L. end of the warning register. The ACMA issued a formal warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. over National Casino in July 2025. The brand has appeared on Abc.net.au and infrastructure.gov.au in the research window. Operating without an Australian licence puts this brand at odds with local enforcement efforts, regardless of the claims made on its homepage.

Bizzo Casino

Bizzo Casino sits under the same July 2025 Consolutetish S.R.L. warning as National Casino, and has a longer paper trail than most brands on the register. The ACMA issued a formal warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. over National Casino and Bizzo Casino in July 2025; Bizzo Casino had already been the subject of a 2022 formal warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. An offshore brand changing operators like this does not exempt it from the ACMA’s enforcement, and serving Australians remains a breach of local law.

Ignition Casino

Ignition Casino is the second brand on the July 2025 warning list. The ACMA issued a formal warning to Bamboo Media over Ignition Casino in July 2025. It has not surfaced in third-party listings under the brand name in the research window; the warning itself serves as the most reliable indicator of its standing with local regulators. It remains prohibited in this country.

Instant Casino

Instant Casino is one of the earliest 2025 names on the warning register. The ACMA issued a formal warning to EOD Code SRL over Instant Casino in February 2025. This brand has actively targeted Australian search traffic through affiliate networks, making the warning particularly relevant for local punters seeking to understand why it is listed as an illegal provider.

Jackbit

Jackbit is the second brand on the most recent warning in the published register. The ACMA issued a formal warning to Ryker B.V. over Jackbit and CasinOK in April 2026. This brand frequently appears on affiliate sites and often advertises crypto-deposit methods, placing it clearly outside the legal framework and current payment restrictions for Australian wagering.

Casino Intense

Casino Intense was named in an April 2025 ACMA warning to Sterplay Holding Ltd. The brand has appeared on Abc.net.au, Asgam.com and cbs.sa.gov.au in the research window. As an offshore provider lacking local authorisation, it is prohibited in Australia and its services are not a legitimate option for any Brisbane resident.

Sky Crown

Sky Crown is the brand named in the September 2022 ACMA formal warning to Hollycorn N.V., which covered both Sky Crown and Blue Leo. The brand has appeared on en.wikipedia.org in the research window. Like every other name on this register, it is an unlicensed offshore entity that should not be considered by players in Australia.

Putting the eleven on one page

The table is a register, not a comparison. Every brand on it has been formally warned by the ACMA for offering prohibited services to Australians, and none of them is licensed to take an Australian customer’s real-money deposit on casino games. Where the third column shows “listings-only”, that means the brand’s name has appeared in third-party listings or industry coverage in the research window; where the column shows an em dash, it means the research did not surface that brand in any listing the inputs cover, and the page does not attach the subject to the operator beyond the ACMA’s own warning. Every row carries the same condition regardless of which column populates: online casino games cannot be licensed anywhere in Australia, whatever licence the site displays.

The licence landscape behind the blocklist

It is worth spending a paragraph on the regulator behind the warnings, because the warnings themselves read more cleanly with the structure underneath them. The ACMA is the Australian Communications and Media Authority, the federal agency that administers the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. The IGA, strengthened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, is the Act the ACMA enforces. The Act makes it an offence to provide prohibited interactive services to a person in Australia. It does not prohibit wagering on races or sport placed before the event, lotteries or keno. Those products are licensed at state and territory level, and the bulk of Australia’s online bookmakers are licensed by the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission for tax reasons — 52 bookmakers, including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes, sit under an NTRWC licence. The NTRWC has no full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin, which is a structural feature a reader should know about: the regulator for the largest cohort of Australian online wagering licences is part-time.

A 2026 reform sits at the edge of the framework. The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026; its advertising and inducement measures commence 1 January 2027. The Bill is law with a start date, not yet in force on a 2026 page, and the practical effect for a Brisbane reader is forward-looking rather than current.

Tax sits at the edge of the framework too. Gambling winnings of a recreational player are not assessable income under section 6-5 ITAA 1997, and losses are not deductible, unless the person carries on a business of gambling. That is the standard ATO model and the right one to check with the ATO directly for any individual position.

What an honest comparison looks like for a Brisbane reader

The cleanest answer to a Brisbane reader who wants a “best” comparison is that the licensed casino is the only option the law recognises, and the eleven brands the ACMA has warned are not options at all — they are the names of operators the regulator has already acted against. The pages that treat those names as comparable choices are not comparing anything; they are listing one licensed venue against eleven prohibited ones and asking the reader to pick.

The remaining choice a Brisbane reader actually has is between the casino at Queen’s Wharf and the licensed wagering services that do operate in Australia — sports bookmakers licensed by the NTRWC or state regulators, and the lotteries and keno products the various state authorities run. Those are not casino-floor substitutes, but they are the only Australian-licensed gambling products an Australian can use without falling foul of the IGA. The set is smaller than the offshore catalogue a search engine returns, and it is the set a Brisbane reader is actually choosing from.

The named Australian wagering set

A short frame on what the licensed set looks like, for completeness:

• Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes are three of the 52 online bookmakers licensed by the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission.
• All three operate under Australian consumer-protection law, accept only the legal deposit routes (debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko, BPAY) and are subject to BetStop for self-exclusion.
• None of them offers online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting, because the IGA prohibits those products. The product gap is the law, not a competitive choice.

A reader who wants casino games in Australia goes to a state-licensed casino floor. A reader who wants to place a wager online uses one of the licensed bookmakers or the state lottery. The two products do not overlap.

Where to stay, where to eat, and the rest of the practical question

A “brisbane casino” search is usually not just a games search. It is a planning search: where to stay, where to eat, how close the hotel is to the floor. The Queen’s Wharf precinct is a single development, and the practical answers follow from that.

The precinct itself sits on the Brisbane River in the CBD, walking distance from the central business district and the major hotel strip along George Street and North Quay. The development consortium built the casino, two hotel towers, residential apartments and a retail and dining precinct as a single integrated site. A visitor who books into one of the on-site hotels is walking distance from the gaming floor and the rooftop bar. A visitor who books into a CBD hotel on George Street or Mary Street is typically a short walk across a bridge or along the riverfront.

Dining runs across the precinct itself, with the casino’s own restaurants augmented by the precinct’s retail and dining tenants. The Treasury Casino, before its August 2024 closure, ran six restaurants, five bars and a nightclub; The Star Brisbane’s food and beverage offering sits within the new precinct, and the specific restaurant mix is set by the operator.

Rooftop bar at the Star Brisbane: yes. The “brisbane casino rooftop bar” search is a search for a feature that exists, not a venue that needs to be found separately.

The right way to read this register

The table above and the warnings it summarises are the most useful single picture of where the offshore “brisbane casino” search results actually come from. The picture has three structural points worth holding:

• Every name on the list has been formally warned, in writing, by the ACMA for offering prohibited services to Australians. The warning is a published step that the agency uses before moving to a blocking request. The warning is not the end of the story, but it is the most recent published step on the file for that brand.
• Several brands have been warned more than once, and several have changed operator between warnings. Dama N.V., TechSolutions and the Rocketplay / Rocketplay.com.au pair are the clearest examples. The pattern is consistent with the ACMA’s enforcement record: a warning is not a closure, and a brand can resurface under a new operator without leaving the regulator’s view.
• The legal position of every brand on the list is the same, regardless of which licence the site displays. Online casino games cannot be licensed anywhere in Australia. An offshore licence — Curaçao, Cyprus, the Isle of Man — is a licence to operate in that jurisdiction, not a licence to serve Australian customers with casino games.

The right way to use the register is to recognise that none of the names on it is a viable option for a Brisbane punter, and to understand the warning as the regulator’s way of telling the public, in print, why that is.

The arithmetic of how often a site gets blocked

The prescribed calculation on this page is the implied blocking rate from the ACMA’s cumulative enforcement record. The inputs are the running total of blocked sites (1,751 as at June 2026) and the date of the first blocking request (November 2019). The window between the first request and the snapshot is roughly six and a half years, or about 78 months, or roughly 339 working weeks. The cumulative figure divided across the full window produces an implied rate in the order of 260 sites per year, or just over five per working week. Read as a band rather than a point, the rate sits between four and seven sites per working week across the post-2019 window, with the recent rounds clustering toward the higher end as the caseload has grown. The figure is a band with its condition; it is not a weekly promise. The ACMA’s blocking rounds are published when they happen, and the rate moves round to round.

What the rate tells a reader is the scale of the offshore industry’s continued effort to serve Australian customers despite the IGA. Each blocked site is a published step; the cumulative number is the total of those steps; the rate is the pace at which the regulator is taking them. The pace has not slowed.

Frequently asked questions

What is the name of the main casino in Brisbane?

The Star Brisbane, inside the Queen’s Wharf precinct on the Brisbane River. It replaced the Treasury Casino, which closed on 25 August 2024 after operating since 1995.

Where is the casino in Brisbane located?

Inside the Queen’s Wharf precinct on the Brisbane River, walking distance from the Brisbane CBD. The development sits across George Street and the riverfront between the CBD and South Bank.

What is the minimum age to enter the casino in Brisbane?

Eighteen. Identification is checked on entry, and the same age applies across every Australian gambling product, casino floor and online wagering service.

Does the casino in Brisbane offer table games such as blackjack and baccarat?

Yes. The Star Brisbane’s main gaming floor runs blackjack, roulette, baccarat and craps, with higher limits and private salons on the level above. The floor also runs pokies and electronic gaming machines.

Are there hotels within walking distance of the casino in Brisbane?

Yes. The Queen’s Wharf precinct itself includes on-site hotel towers, and the CBD hotel strip along George Street, Mary Street and North Quay is within walking distance across the river or along the riverfront.

Can Australians legally play at an online casino instead of visiting the casino in Brisbane?

No. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, strengthened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, prohibits offering online casino games to anyone in Australia. No state or territory issues a licence for online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting.

Written by the editors at Casino Live Dealer Hub.