Source: OLGR Queensland
Queensland's Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) requires gaming machine licence holders to maintain a compliance programme meeting minimum standards. The requirements cover gaming-related compliance details and signage on gaming rules, cash payouts and safer gambling.
Licensees must maintain compliant programmes and signage to meet Queensland gaming obligations.
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Queensland's OLGR guidance explains how eligible hotel licensees obtain gaming machine operating authorities through competitive tenders across three regions. Authorities must remain within their original region when traded. A trial running until 30 June 2028 publishes minimum prices and reduces the government's share of sale proceeds from 33% to 15%.
Hotel licensees in Queensland with a gaming machine licence must hold an operating authority for each gaming machine, and eligible licensees can obtain one only through an authorised sale by the Queensland Public Trustee, according to the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR). Sales are run by competitive tender across three regions, and an authority can be bought and sold only in the region where it originated.
Queensland applicants holding or seeking an eligible liquor licence can apply to the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) for a gaming machine licence or changes to an existing one. The Commissioner for Liquor and Gaming decides whether to grant an application, considering social and community impacts; applications with significant community impact require a community impact statement, responsible gambling initiatives statement and advertising.
Queensland opened tenders for hotel gaming machine operating authorities, with submissions due by 4pm on 25 November 2026. The 38 authorities are available across three regions: South-East has 18, Coastal eight and Western 12.
Queensland’s Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation says venues must operate networked ID scanners when they meet specified late-trading, location and licence conditions. Exemptions apply to listed licence categories unless a licence condition requires scanning; generally, only licensed crowd controllers may operate the scanners, subject to training and supervision exceptions.
Queensland’s liquor rules limit trading by licensed premises on Anzac Day, 25 April, while allowing licensed RSLs and services clubs to serve alcohol from 5am for commemorations. Other licensees may trade from 10am to 1pm if they serve meals, and casinos may offer gaming until 3am on 24 April.