Library

Working references
for Australian club compliance.

37 pages organised by category — free tools you can browse without logging in, honest vendor comparisons, regulatory explainers with the citations attached, and long-tail references for the questions club managers and AMLCOs actually ask.

Free tools · 3

Browseable, no login required.

The obligation inventory, the L&GNSW audit document, and the regulatory horizon. Each page also offers a downloadable PDF behind a single-field email capture.

Free tool · Browseable

Obligation tree explorer

85 obligations across 9 statutory categories with plain-English summaries, citations, and the four-tier strategic framework. Free to browse; PDF download via email.

Free tool · L&GNSW

Audit Pack Explorer

All 75 Parts and 363 questions of the L&GNSW Club Licence Self-Audit Checklist, searchable + filterable, with a free companion PDF.

Free tool · Looking forward

Regulatory horizon

What's active today, what's imminent in the next 12-18 months, and what to watch from the international monitor list. Free PDF download.

Platform primers · 3

What Venue Axis is.

How the platform is structured around the L&GNSW self-audit checklist, what the three portals actually do, and how the published mid-market pricing works.

L&GNSW · the working surface

How Venue Axis answers CL1002

The 75-Part audit document inspectors walk through, and how each Part is handled through operational activities — answered automatically from floor data, tracked, scheduled, surfaced for staff, hosted in the platform, or integrated from external systems.

Platform · overview

The Venue Axis working surface

Three portals (Floor App + Manager Desktop + CEO Portal) covering AML/CTF, harm-minimisation, incident register, FRT, governance, and CL1002 alignment.

Pricing · published

Pricing & tiers

Register+ for sub-AML clubs ($99/mo year one, $129/mo after) and Full per-EGM for above-threshold venues. First three months free, no card up front.

Vendor comparisons · 7

Honest, architectural, with the leads named.

Six vendor comparisons + a comparison hub. Each page identifies where the other vendor genuinely leads, where Venue Axis differs, and when each is the right call for a specific venue context.

Comparison · LITE / Full / Ecosystem

CherryHub vs Venue Axis

All three CherryHub tiers — CherryCheck LITE (free), CherryCheck Full (paid modular), and the broader CherryHub ecosystem (Cherrypass + Cherrypay + CherryCheck) — compared honestly.

Comparison · Enterprise AML

BNDRY vs Venue Axis

BNDRY (Identitii) is the enterprise AML/CTF tier with banks-grade Hawk AI ML — enterprise-tier pricing. Single-platform scope vs specialist depth.

Comparison · Multi-state register

AusComply vs Venue Axis

Established multi-state digital incident register (5M+ logged) with Corsight FRT bundled. Gaming-native vs incident-register-first.

Comparison · Adjacent layer

Ebet vs Venue Axis

EGM management platform increasingly adding compliance features. Adjacent layers, not direct competitors — Venue Axis integrates with Ebet via CMS adapter.

Comparison · AML specialist

ComplyIQ vs Venue Axis

AUSTRAC-specialist SaaS with a captive consulting-triangle distribution moat (The AML Company + RCA Group). Mid-market AML depth vs cross-regime defensibility breadth.

Comparison · Adjacent layer

Clubernance vs Venue Axis

Governance and board-administration platform — board packs, minutes, registers, policy templates. Most clubs running both end up with secretariat + operational split.

Comparison · index

All comparisons hub

Side-by-side decision framing across the six vendors, with a Quick Guide that maps your evaluation context to the right comparison page.

Regulatory explainers · 24

With the citations attached.

Working references for the questions AMLCOs and club managers actually ask — AUSTRAC obligations, L&GNSW inspection shape, NSW gaming-specific rules, retention timeframes, FRT vendor selection.

AUSTRAC · SMR drafting

AUSTRAC SMR drafting

How to draft a defensible Suspicious Matter Report under the AML/CTF Amendment Act 2024 — threshold rationale, evidence standards, the questions AUSTRAC asks.

AUSTRAC · AMLCO role

The AMLCO role explained

Whether your club needs an AML Compliance Officer, what the role does day-to-day, how the 2024 Amendment Act sharpens documentation expectations.

AUSTRAC · Rule 8.1

AML/CTF Rule 8.1 explained

The single unified AML/CTF programme (Act s.26B post-reform) — the venue's ML/TF risk assessment (ss.26C–26E), the AML/CTF policies (s.26F), and AMLCO designation (s.26J).

AUSTRAC · CDD vs SMR

CDD vs SMR — which applies

Customer Due Diligence vs Suspicious Matter Reports — different triggers, different timeframes, and the overlap zone where both apply. Includes a note on why TTRs are rarely triggered at registered clubs.

L&GNSW · inspection prep

L&GNSW inspection walkthrough

What inspectors ask for first, where the five clusters of findings come from, what happens if something's wrong, how to prepare in advance.

NSW · GMA s.49

NSW self-exclusion register

Gaming Machines Act s.49 requirements, MVSE coordination, refusal-on-entry obligations, and the operational shape that holds up under inspection.

Records · retention

Record retention timeframes

How long an Australian club has to retain incident register, AML, RSA, payroll, fire safety, and governance records — with the citations attached.

NSW · Schedule 1

NSW Schedule 1 obligations

The Liquor Act 2007 (NSW) Schedule 1 obligations — what every NSW liquor licensee has to maintain, regardless of licence class or trading hours.

FRT · vendor selection

FRT vendor selection

How to evaluate a facial-recognition technology vendor for self-exclusion enforcement and harm-minimisation. What to ask, what to test, what to avoid.

NSW · GMA trading hours

Gaming machine trading hours

The mandatory daily six-hour shutdown under the Gaming Machines Act, how variations work, and where the three breach patterns actually live.

RSA & RCG · NSW

RSA & RCG renewal

Five-year competency cards via Service NSW, who needs which one, the renewal flow, and the most common L&GNSW finding (an expired card on the floor).

NSW · legal test

What "reasonable steps" means

The phrase appears across intoxication, minors, self-exclusion, and AML provisions. Same words, context-specific test. What evidence supports the defence.

AUSTRAC · designated services

Designated services for clubs

What 'designated service' means under the AML/CTF Act, which gaming-venue activities trigger reporting-entity status, and the six obligations that follow.

AUSTRAC · AML program

Writing an AML/CTF program

What goes into a defensible post-31-March-2026 AML/CTF programme — the ML/TF risk assessment, the AML/CTF policies, the risk-based methodology, and how the AML/CTF Rules 2025 (Part 5) add detail.

Privacy Act · ADM

Automated decision-making for gaming

Privacy Act ADM provisions for FRT, AML alert ranking, and patron risk-scoring. Transparency, contestability, and human-oversight obligations alongside AUSTRAC.

AUSTRAC · tipping off

Tipping-off offence explained

What s.123 of the AML/CTF Act prohibits, where the line is, what staff training has to cover, and how routine CDD operates without revealing scrutiny.

AUSTRAC · structuring

Structuring explained

Section 142 of the AML/CTF Act, the most common pattern triggering SMRs in gaming venues, three concrete patterns (single-session, multi-day, multi-venue), and the detection layers.

NSW · MVSE scheme

Multi-Venue Self-Exclusion explained

How the NSW MVSE scheme works alongside single-venue s.49, who runs it, what participating venues are obligated to do, and the union-register pattern at entry.

Liquor Act · s.73

Intoxication procedures

Liquor Act s.73 detect / prevent / remove framework, the L&GNSW guideline indicators, the five-element evidence chain, and where refusal logs go wrong.

Liquor Act · s.117

Minors on licensed premises

Liquor Act s.117 + Registered Clubs Act, the active age-verification standard (the 25 rule), restricted areas, and the door-staff role at the front line.

AUSTRAC · CDD

Customer due diligence walkthrough

Initial CDD, ongoing CDD, enhanced CDD — the three layers under Part 2 of the AML/CTF Act, what each captures, and how PEP screening + CDD-refusal handling fit together.

Club governance · directors

Director responsibilities

What a NSW club director is responsible for under the Corporations Act, the Registered Clubs Act, and the operational regimes — and where the 2024 AML/CTF Amendment Act elevates board-level oversight.

AUSTRAC · independent review

AML/CTF independent review

What the independent review of an AML/CTF program actually covers, who can do it, the five-area scope, the report shape, and the venue's response obligation under the 2024 Amendment Act.

AUSTRAC · PEP screening

PEP screening for clubs

Politically Exposed Persons screening explained — who qualifies, how Dow Jones / World-Check / similar services work in practice, what enhanced CDD a match triggers, and false-positive handling.

FAQs

About this library.

What is this page?

An index of every working reference Venue Axis publishes — free tools, vendor comparisons, regulatory explainers, and compliance references for club managers and AML officers. Organised by category so you can go straight to the question you're actually trying to answer. Most are useful regardless of which platform a venue ends up choosing.

Are these pages biased?

We wrote them, so they're necessarily framed by us. We've tried to keep the comparisons honest, including identifying where other vendors genuinely lead. Each comparison page has a disclosure callout. The explainers are working references with the legislation citations attached — treat the citation as the source of truth and the plain-English text as a navigation aid.

Where do I start if I'm new here?

Depends on what you’re looking for:

Will you publish more references?

Yes — new comparison pages, explainers, and references are added regularly as the questions club managers and compliance officers actually ask come in. If there's a specific topic you'd like to see covered, email hello@venueaxis.com.au.

Is any of this legal advice?

No. Everything here is working reference material. Where we cite legislation, the citation is authoritative; where we summarise in plain English, the summary is a navigation aid. For a definitive view of your obligations, talk to a liquor and gaming lawyer or a registered AML consulting firm.

Or just see it in your venue.

The references are useful regardless of which platform you end up on. The cleanest comparison is the trial — first three months free, no card up front, full export of your data if it's not the right fit.