Hayley Hamilton — Lead Editor, Online Casino
Hayley leads casino editorial coverage at Ngāti Paoa. Before joining the site she spent six years as a gambling industry reporter at the National Business Review and contributed regulatory analysis to iGaming Business and the New Zealand Herald's business desk during the passage of the Online Casino Gambling Act. She holds a BCom from the University of Auckland and a postgraduate certificate in regulation and policy from Victoria University of Wellington.
Beats: Online pokies, casino reviews, NZ gambling regulation, Online Casino Gambling Act 2026, payment methods, responsible-gambling tooling at casino sites.
Pages bylined: Online Pokies NZ homepage, Crypto Casinos, individual operator reviews.
Hamish Cameron — Senior Sports Editor & Compliance Reviewer
Hamish spent 12 years as a sportsbook trader for a UK Tier-1 operator before relocating to Auckland in 2022 and moving into editorial work. He's the senior compliance reviewer for everything on this site: every commercial page passes his desk for licence verification, claim accuracy, and Racing Industry Act / Online Casino Gambling Act compliance before publication. He covers sportsbooks, World Cup, NRL, A-League and racing analytics.
Beats: Sports betting, TAB NZ vs Betcha, World Cup 2026, sportsbook compliance, Racing Industry Act 2020, odds analysis, value betting.
Pages bylined: Online Betting NZ, FIFA World Cup 2026.
Nikora Paul — Responsible Gambling Lead
Nikora oversees responsible-gambling content and editorial response to safer-gambling concerns from readers. He spent ten years as a registered psychotherapist with a clinical focus on addictive behaviour, and consulted to the Problem Gambling Foundation between 2018 and 2024. He sets our policy on operator placement related to harm-minimisation tooling and reviews every responsible-gambling article before publication.
Beats: Responsible gambling, self-exclusion, harm minimisation, Mapu Maia and Pasifika support services, family/whānau support, the link between problem gambling and other addictive behaviours.
Pages bylined: Responsible gambling and safer-gambling sections across the site.
Editorial standards
Every author on this site:
- Discloses any prior commercial relationship with operators they cover.
- Tests operators with real money before publishing a review — we do not write reviews from press releases.
- Cites primary sources (regulator registers, IRD bulletins, DIA publications) wherever a claim is fact-based.
- Updates published reviews within 90 days, or sooner if an operator or regulator change materially shifts the picture.
- Publishes corrections in the article footer rather than silently editing.
The full editorial policy and 12-point review methodology is on our about page.