China Jails Workers From Crown Resorts of Australia in Message to Casinosbr Although gambling is illegal in mainland China, many Chinese flock to Macau — a special administrative region under Beijing’s rulebr but governed by separate laws — as well as places like Australia, Singapore and the Philippines to try their luck.br “The uncertainty was stifling for a lot of casino operators because they didn’t exactly know how this was going to pan outbr and what the exact objections were because not much was made public,” said Sudhir Kalé, the founder of GamePlan Consultants, a gambling consultancy based in Australia that has advised Crown in the past.