Reading CasinosAU costs nothing because casino operators fund it. Below: how the arrangement works, how to recognise it on a page and where its influence stops.
CasinosAU desk · revised 21 October 2026
In brief
- Every casino listed on CasinosAU is an advertising partner of the publisher.
- Buttons and links to operators pass through
/go/addresses and are affiliate links. - When somebody signs up that way, the casino may pay the publisher; the reader pays nothing.
- Our guides section carries no casino listings.
Where the money comes from
Our income comes from operators under affiliate agreements. Agreements vary: some pay a set amount once a player we sent funds an account, some share in that player’s later net losses at the casino, some mix the two. Individual terms stay confidential. Subscriptions, reader payments, data sales: none.
How to spot a paid link
A link that leaves for a casino starts with casinosau.net/go/, carries the rel="sponsored nofollow" marker in the page code and usually sits on a “Visit site” button. Pages with listings say on the page that the entries are paid placements. Links to regulators, support lines, game developers and news outlets earn us nothing; they are ordinary references.
What happens when you press the button
The /go/ address sets two short-lived cookies and forwards you to the operator with a referral code. The casino then knows the visit came from us, which is how it attributes a sign-up. The cookies are described on Privacy and data use.
What the money does not change
The points we publish for each brand are the same for every brand. A partner cannot remove a point, rewrite a sentence about its terms or see a page before it goes live. The guides on declined payments, chargebacks and self-exclusion stay free of listings, because an advertisement beside them would read as advice.
What it does mean
Only operators with whom the publisher has an agreement appear in lists, so a list is not a survey of every casino an Australian can reach. Order and selection are editorial choices made inside that circle; the method is on How we rank.
The figure out of ten next to a listing tracks its place in that order; no separate test stands behind it.
What you should still check yourself
A paid listing tells you that a brand exists and accepts Australians; it does not settle whether the brand suits you. Before a deposit, read the operator’s licence statement, the bonus terms, the withdrawal limits and the list of documents it will ask for. If any of these is missing or vague on the casino’s own site, treat that as an answer.
Going without our links
Nothing obliges you to use a /go/ link. You can type a casino’s address yourself or search for it, and we earn nothing from a visit arriving that way. The operator’s own terms apply whichever route you take, and the information on our pages does not change depending on how you reach a casino.
Why this should shape how you read us
An affiliate site earns from sign-ups, not from readers’ wins. Every site of this kind, ours included, therefore has a reason to make signing up look attractive. Keep that in mind with any comparison table, here or anywhere else: read the operator’s terms in full, set a limit you can afford, and let a glowing description open your own checks rather than close them.
A note on the law
Offering online casino games to Australians is an offence for the operator under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, and the operators we list are based abroad. Being paid by them does not make them lawful here or safer. What we can and cannot vouch for is listed on What CasinosAU cannot tell you.
Who answers for this
Qasrelle New Media FZ-LLC, Building 3, Dubai Internet City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, holds the affiliate agreements and is responsible for this disclosure. If a page fails to make its commercial nature clear, send the address to [email protected]. This page describes the arrangements as they stand on the revision date shown above and is rewritten whenever they change.