Proxy lotto sites banned

FOREIGN lottery betting websites such as the contentious Lottoland will be banned under a new gambling crackdown by the Turnbull Government.

Australia will become the latest country to ban the “fake lotto” companies, which have been blamed for a dramatic fall in government revenue by taking bets on state-sanctioned lottery draws.

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield will introduce legislation today to ban betting on all foreign lotteries and keno games, which follows a domestic ban late last year.