List of casinos in Australia: 14 venues across 8 states and territories

All 14 casinos in Australia, state by state

Each row gives the company that holds or runs the licence, and the casino hours where we could confirm them on the venue’s own site. Where we couldn’t, the table says “Not verified” rather than guessing.

Hours and owners checked 18 and 19 Sep 2026.

The holiday closures fall on Christmas Day, Good Friday and Anzac Day. Crown Melbourne shuts from 4am to midday on all three. The Star Gold Coast and The Star Brisbane stop gaming at 3am on Christmas Day and Good Friday and reopen at midnight; on Anzac Day they reopen at 1pm. Crown Perth closes from 3am to 10pm on Christmas Day and 3am to midday on Anzac Day, plus a Good Friday morning closure whose end time its own pages give two ways, so ring ahead.

Crown Resorts, which runs three of the 14, has been owned by the Blackstone Group since 2022. The Star Brisbane is the odd one: Star Entertainment still operates it and it carries The Star name, but Star completed the sale of its 50% stake in the owning consortium on 1 Apr 2026, and Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and Far East Consortium now own it half each.

How many casinos in Australia? Why lists say 13, 14 or 15

Ask Google how many casinos Australia has and you’ll see 13, 14, 15 and even 20. The honest count is 14, and the gap comes down to two venues.

• Crown Sydney holds a Restricted Gaming Licence rather than a general one. It’s open only to members and their guests, and its licence rules out poker machines entirely. Lists that count “casinos anyone can walk into” stop at 13.
• Treasury Casino Brisbane closed on 25 Aug 2024, and The Star Brisbane opened four days later at Queen’s Wharf. Lists written before then still show Treasury, and some now show both.

On a map of casinos in Australia, nine sit in capital cities. The other five are on the Gold Coast and in Cairns, Townsville, Launceston and Alice Springs. That leaves most of the country hours from a casino floor, which is why the nearest machines for most Australians are in a pub, RSL or leagues club. Western Australia is the exception: there, Crown Perth is the only place with pokies at all. Our guide to pokies near me sets out pub and club rules state by state.

The biggest casino in Australia, and why second place is contested

Crown Melbourne is the largest casino in Australia by licensed capacity. The Victorian regulator licenses it for up to 2,628 gaming machines, 440 gaming tables and 100 poker tables, and its gaming floor covers about 20,000 m² (220,000 sq ft, per Wikipedia). It has held the only casino licence ever issued in Victoria since 1993, and that licence runs to 2050.

Reports on how many machines are actually switched on differ (the ABC has printed both 2,400 and 2,628), so treat 2,628 as the ceiling rather than a floor count.

Second place is where lists go wrong, because many rankings mix a permit ceiling for one casino with an installed count for another. The last column shows what each published figure actually measures:

Crown Perth and The Star Brisbane share a 2,500-machine ceiling, and neither publishes an exact installed count that can be set against Melbourne’s. We won’t crown a runner-up without those numbers, and you should be wary of any “top 10 biggest” list that does.

What sets each casino apart

The seven big-city casinos with their own guide

• Crown Melbourne: every machine needs a photo card with time and loss limits set, and Crown caps play periods at 12 hours a day and 36 hours a week.
• Crown Perth: the only pokies in Western Australia, with a A$10 maximum bet on main-floor machines and carded play since 1 Dec 2025.
• Crown Sydney: members only, tables and electronic tables but no pokies, open 10am to 4am (6am on Friday and Saturday).
• The Star Sydney: open 24 hours, a physical player card for every player, and a licence suspended since October 2022 while a manager appointed by the NSW casino regulator (NICC) runs the casino (as of 19 Sep 2026).
• The Star Gold Coast: over 70 tables and 1,400+ machines on Broadbeach Island, and no rubber thongs on the gaming floor after 6pm.
• The Star Brisbane: Treasury’s replacement at Queen’s Wharf since 29 Aug 2024, where the gaming floor takes up less than 5% of the whole development.
• Adelaide Casino: SkyCity-run and South Australia’s only casino, in the heritage-listed Adelaide railway station building on North Terrace.

The regional and smaller casinos

• The Reef Hotel Casino, Cairns: 10am to 4am daily, opening at 1pm on Anzac Day and closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
• The Ville Resort-Casino, Townsville: about 370 gaming machines and 20+ table games, run by Morris Group.
• Wrest Point, Hobart: opened on 10 Feb 1973 and described by Wikipedia as Australia’s first legal casino. Federal Group also owns Launceston’s Country Club Casino, and Tasmania has issued no high-roller casino licences.
• Casino Canberra: the ACT’s only licensed casino, at 21 Binara Street in Civic, open noon to 4am.
• Mindil Beach Casino Resort, Darwin: opened in 1983 and sold by SkyCity to Delaware North in April 2019. Delaware North also holds the NT Keno licence.
• Lasseters Hotel Casino, Alice Springs: run by Iris Capital, the same group behind Casino Canberra.

What changed at Crown and The Star

The big operators have been under inquiries, suspensions and fines since 2021, and the fallout explains most of the rules you’ll meet at the door today. The key dates:

Crown is further along. Crown Sydney and Crown Perth have both been found suitable again, Crown Melbourne works under a transformation plan that runs to 31 Dec 2026 with a suitability review due in 2027, and its recent penalties are smaller, such as the Victorian regulator’s A$2m fine in October 2024 for letting 242 self-excluded people gamble. The Star is still mid-repair. It posted a statutory net loss of A$307.3m for FY26, its Sydney licence is still suspended, and the Sydney manager’s term and the deferred Gold Coast suspension both run to 30 Sep 2026. A conditional return of the Sydney licence was floated at NSW budget estimates in August 2026, but no decision had been published by 19 Sep 2026.

Adelaide has its own chapter: a A$67m AUSTRAC penalty in June 2024, then a non-binding in-principle agreement in June 2026 for SkyCity to pay a A$21m fine and phase out cash transactions over A$4,999.

Cards, cash limits and dress codes before you go

For a visitor, the result of all that is paperwork at the door. Four big-city casinos now tie your play to a card and put a ceiling on your time, bets or cash:

The Sydney cash limit was due to fall to A$1,000; that cut is now deferred to 19 Aug 2027. Crown Perth also bans large bags, briefcases and laptops from the casino and uses facial recognition. Crown Melbourne’s table games move to carded play by 1 Dec 2027.

Then there’s getting in and out. The Star Sydney charges up to A$85 a day to park, The Star Brisbane A$80 for five hours or more (and warns its car park is regularly full on Friday and Saturday evenings), and Crown Perth’s Riverside car park costs A$25 on a weekday and A$40 on a weekend unless you hold Silver status or higher.

Land-based vs online: what each gets you

A casino floor gives you things a phone can’t: the room, the crowd, and a dealer across a real table from you. It also comes with a drive, a dress code, a card and a clock. Here’s how a night out compares with a session at SafeCasino:

That last row is the big one: every online casino Australians use, SafeCasino included, is based offshore. Before you play, read what the law says about that.

If you’re choosing online, set it up the way you’d plan a casino trip. SafeCasino says some withdrawals can take up to 3 days to process, and its only listed control is self-exclusion through 24/7 live chat, so verify your ID before your first withdrawal, start at A$10, and decide your own weekly budget. You can try any SafeCasino pokie in demo mode before a dollar goes in. And if what you miss about the casino is the private room, Crown vs online VIP compares the two.