Editorial Policy: Sources, Fact Checking and Updates Australia

Independence from operators

No operator, including Sky City, sees our reviews before they are published. No operator can veto a piece, remove a cons line from a review, or reword a page. The affiliate relationship pays for our hosting and our writers' time; it does not buy a positive review. When an operator we cover does something we cannot recommend, we say so — the Honest Pros and Cons block on the home page is where you see it first.

Independence is not just a slogan — it is a working rule. Our writers are not paid per sign-up. They are paid for the hours spent researching, writing and keeping pages current, which means the next page they write is funded whether or not you clicked through to the operator. That removes the daily pressure to oversell.

Sources

For every number on this site we try to show the source. Promotion details come from the operator's own promotions page. Payment processing times come from the operator's banking page and from recent payouts posted in player forums. Bonus terms come from the terms-and-conditions PDF the operator publishes — not from a marketing landing page. Where a number comes from an estimate, we say estimated.

Secondary sources we rely on: the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) for licensing data, state regulators (VGCCC, L&GNSW) for operator history, Gambling Help Online for problem-gambling resources, and well-run player communities on Reddit and dedicated forums for timings and anecdotal payouts — the last of these are used as a cross-check against the operator's own stated times, never as a primary source.

Corrections

We fix mistakes. If you find a wrong number, a dead link or a bonus that does not exist on the operator side, email `hello [at] sky-city.bet` with the page URL — we will fix it within one business day and we will add a corrections note to the page if the mistake affected a factual claim (not a typo).

A correction note looks like this at the bottom of the page: Corrected 15 Nov 2026 — welcome bonus listed as A$500, actual A$1,000. We leave the old wrong value visible in the note, even though the body text has been fixed, so a reader who saw the mistake and acted on it can reconcile what they saw with what is now on the page.

Principles

Three rules we work by. One: we do not recommend a bonus with a wagering requirement we cannot explain in one sentence — if we cannot, you cannot win. Two: a promo code only goes on this site if it is actually live on the operator side at the time we publish. Three: we never present an operator's own marketing copy as our review — the whole point of the review is to tell you something the operator will not.

A fourth rule for pages that mention numbers: if the number has an as of date, we show it. Promo values, bonus caps, deposit minimums and withdrawal windows are all time-sensitive, and a page without a date is a page that cannot age gracefully. The home page carries a global last updated date; individual pages that moved recently carry their own.

Sponsored content

We do not publish sponsored articles, paid guest posts, or marketing-copy-in-review-disguise. The relationship with Sky City is an affiliate one: we send you through `/enter/`, and if you sign up and deposit, we earn a commission from the operator. Your terms and your welcome bonus do not change because you came through us — the operator pays the fee out of their marketing budget.

Fact checking

Every page is reviewed by two people: the writer, and a senior editor who checks the numbers against the operator's current pages. We re-check high-traffic pages (home, bonuses, promo codes, payments) every month and the rest every quarter. When Sky City launches a new promo or retires an old one, the relevant page is updated the same week.