Is Polymarket available in Australia?
Short answer: No, not for new trades. Australia is on Polymarket's close-only list, so from an Australian location you can sell positions you already hold but cannot buy, on the website or the API. Polymarket is not licensed under Australian gambling or financial-services law.
What you can and cannot do
From Australia the markets still load and prices are visible, but buy orders are refused. Existing positions can be sold or left to resolve, and proceeds can be withdrawn. Nothing is confiscated; the restriction only stops you adding exposure.
Why Australia is restricted
Two regulators matter. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 makes it unlawful to offer certain online wagering services to Australians without a licence, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) enforces it, including by asking internet providers to block offending sites. Financial products offered to retail clients need an Australian financial services licence from ASIC. Polymarket has neither, so it stopped accepting new positions from Australia.
Is it an offence for the user?
The Interactive Gambling Act is aimed at providers, not at individual customers. That does not make an unlicensed offshore platform safe: there is no Australian dispute scheme, no local fund protection, and a site blocked by ACMA can become unreachable while you hold a position.
Licensed alternatives
- Australian-licensed bookmakers offer politics and novelty markets around federal and state elections.
- ASIC-licensed brokers cover financial outcomes such as rate decisions.
- Reading prediction-market prices remains free and legal, and is often the most useful part.
Tax
The ATO treats crypto as a capital-gains asset. Selling USDC for Australian dollars, or swapping it, is a disposal. Gambling winnings are generally not taxed for hobbyists, but whether event-contract profits count as gambling has not been settled; keep records and take advice.
Using PolyGram from Australia
PolyGram shows Polymarket's live prices and event pages inside Telegram, and reading them needs no account or wallet. Whether you may trade from where you live is decided by PolyGram's own terms and by your local law, not by this page; check both before you deposit.
Source: Polymarket's own geographic-restrictions documentation, checked on 11 November 2026. This page is information, not legal advice; rules change, so confirm before you trade.