Senior iGaming Analyst. 11 years covering Australian and New Zealand casino markets. Editor and primary author at faircrownlogin-au.com.
I fell into iGaming the way most people in this trade do — sideways. Back in 2015 I was writing technical SEO audits for a small comparison shop out of Surry Hills when one of the senior writers went on maternity leave. The brief landed on my desk: "review six pokie sites by Friday." Six turned into sixty. I haven't really left since.
The thing that kept me in the work was how often the publicly-available casino information was wrong. Bonus T&Cs would say one thing, the cashier would do another. Help pages claimed 24-hour withdrawals, then my test account would sit untouched for four days. So I started keeping spreadsheets of measured outcomes — actual withdrawal times, actual KYC turnaround, actual game contribution to wagering. That habit is now the spine of every site I run.
What I care about, in order: clear bonus math, honest licensing, fast and predictable cash-outs, and responsible gambling tooling that's more than a tick-box exercise. FairCrown landed on my list of casinos worth covering because it ticks more of those boxes than most operators competing for the Australian audience.
Reading T&Cs PDFs for fun. Wagering math, max-bet rules, game contribution tables — checked against the live cashier, not the marketing page.
PayID, OSKO, crypto rails and the way Australian card issuers treat gambling MCCs. Measured withdrawal times, not advertised ones.
Curacao, MGA, Anjouan — what each licence actually means for player protection in practice, beyond the badge in the footer.
Deposit limits, session timers, BetStop integration. Knows the AU helpline numbers without checking.
Interactive Gambling Act 2001 and how it shapes the operator landscape Australian players actually access today.
Every page I publish has been tested by me, on a real account, from a residential Australian IP. Bonus math is verified against the live T&Cs PDF on the day of publication, and the dateModified field is updated whenever any of those numbers changes. Affiliate relationships are declared on every page in the footer. If I ever stop being comfortable with how an operator behaves, I'll say so on this site before continuing to recommend them.
Reader corrections are welcome and acted on quickly — usually within 48 hours of a verified email landing in the editorial inbox. If you find something on this site that's wrong, I'd rather hear about it than not.
That's the page most of the work goes into and the one I update most often.
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