Source: OLGR Queensland
Queensland’s liquor rules restrict alcohol sales and gambling at licensed venues over Easter. Hotels and clubs must stop gaming at midnight on Good Friday Eve and cannot resume until 10am on Easter Saturday; casino gambling can continue until 3am on Good Friday, then must stop until midnight.
The restrictions determine when Queensland hotels, clubs and casinos can offer gambling during Easter.
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Victoria’s Gambling and Casino Control Commission fined nine venue operators for allowing poker machine play outside permitted hours on Good Friday and ANZAC Day in 2025. The fines ranged from AUD 3,000 to AUD 15,000; the commission also issued censure warnings to three other venues.
Queensland's Christmas trading rules restrict gambling at hotels, clubs and casinos, according to the regulator's notice. Hotel and club gaming machines must stop at midnight on Christmas Eve and cannot resume until 10am on Boxing Day; casinos may operate until 3am on Christmas Day, then must stop until midnight that day.
Queensland's Commissioner for Liquor and Gaming may consider temporary changes to ID-scanning hours when a major event sends crowds into or through a safe night precinct as scanning would normally begin. Applicants must show the event ends after 9.15pm and before 11pm, could increase adverse interactions, and creates significant, demonstrable scanning costs.
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 Commissioner for Liquor and Gaming says approval for a club’s additional licensed premises may be granted only if it is in members’ best interests and not contrary to the public interest. The guidance identifies member facilities, support for the club’s existing sporting or social activities and community assistance as relevant considerations.