Our Team

You will see a small author card at the top of every long article with the writer's name and a one-line bio. Hover on the name to open the author page, which lists every article the writer has published on this site and a longer bio. The author card is not a marketing widget — it exists so readers know who is accountable for the words on the page, and so the writer can take pride in an article the whole team pushed to be accurate.

The author page also lists the writer's area of focus (pokies, payments, bonuses, mobile), the number of articles they have published on the site and the last time the roster entry was reviewed by the senior editor. If a writer leaves the site, their byline stays on the articles they wrote — we do not re-brand historical work under a new byline. Writers who return after a break are credited with their original identity so the thread of their coverage stays continuous.

Every writer on the roster uses a real name and a real professional background. We do not publish articles under invented personas, we do not accept ghostwritten content from the operator and we do not run AI-generated articles under a writer's byline. If AI tools are used at any stage — for outline drafting, grammar checks, summarisation — the human writer takes final responsibility for the words, checks each claim against a source and signs the article off. The rule is simple: if there is a byline on the article, a human is accountable.

If you have written about Australian gambling before and want to join the roster, send a two-paragraph introduction plus two links to published work to [email protected]. Experience with poker, pokies or AFL betting content is a plus. We pay per published article and the pay rate depends on the depth of the brief and the research required. Freelancers writing a trial piece get the same brief, the same deadline and the same review loop as staff writers.

Every article begins with a brief. The editor lists the questions a reader usually asks about that topic and the sources we will use to answer them. The writer drafts the text, cites the sources inline, and hands it to the copy editor. The copy editor checks every number against the source, adjusts tone and sends the draft back if a claim cannot be verified. Only after that round is the article published. The same loop runs again when the brand changes a bonus or a payment method — we do not patch one paragraph in isolation, we re-run the brief.

The team is small and the roles are clear. The senior editor is responsible for the accuracy of the brand page: welcome bonus, payment methods, the list of game studios. The pokies writer owns the pokies library — which titles are available, what RTP they run at and who makes them. The payments writer covers deposits and withdrawals: PayID, Neosurf, Visa, Mastercard and crypto. The copy editor reads every article before it goes live and after every update, catching the mistakes the author is tired of seeing. A small team keeps every decision close to one desk and keeps responsibility clear.

A claim about Space9 Casino is only accepted if it is still visible on the operator's own site or in a document the operator published. A claim about a game studio or an individual pokie is only accepted if the studio's website or the game's official T&Cs confirm it. Numbers that change often (bonus amounts, wagering multipliers, maximum withdrawal per week) carry a visible last-checked date in the article. When a reader writes to us with a correction, we treat it as a priority and reply even if the correction turns out not to be correct — the thread helps the next writer.