Australian Government Set to Follow US Investigation
March 23, 2009
The Australian government are currently in the process of deciding if they should too look into banning online poker sites from its nations internet, saying that it will protect its native citizens.
The plans are to ban a number of ‘Bad’ sites on the internet that can lead to people getting them into financial difficultly, with online poker sites been rated as one of the categories that fall into the ‘Bad’ site listings.
Senator Stephen Conroy s leading the group which are planning the ISP blocking of such sites, limiting the chances of citizens getting onto the sites via the internet.
This comes just months after the U.S. congress have started investigations into whether they should make online betting illegal, including online poker. 
Recent tribunals are helping the U.S. congress to make their decision, with the poker world calling on some of the biggest named spokes people in the sport to help fight the corner of the poker community.
The U.S. congress has stated that should they decide not to illegalise online poker and gambling, they would be looking to place a tax onto the funds won by the better.
An Australian government spokesman issued a statement, referring to the AUS citizens as sheep:
Imagine a young lamb inadvertantly wandering into an internet cafe, ordering a medium latte and logging on only to be faced with the evil that is online poker – there is potential to lose the entire flock’s winter feed and supply of that extra-strong sheep-dip which kills off those pesky ticks
As this news comes into the light that is the media, there is bound to be a number of people who will want to contest this move, with a number of poker professionals coming from AUS.
Only time will tell if the AUS government actually follow through with the proposal, but there will be a huge number of ‘sheep’ that will not want this to come into action.
We would like to hear from any AUS players that have an opinion on this story, what are your thoughts?
Are governments moving in the wrong direction to prevent ‘financial difficulties’?