<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In case you’re not aware, there’s much industry lobbying and consternation about the Australian Sports Commission’s review of how to fund Australian Sport into the future (eg, Olympic Athletes, etc).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The easy (but flawed) suggestion is to copy the UK’s Lottery concept. But that has major issues in Australia. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And now the lottery agents association is saying tax wagering with a new POC tax, not cannibalise us by bringing in a new lottery.</div><div class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro', Meiryo, 'Hiragino Sans GB W3', 'Noto Naskh Arabic', 'Droid Arabic Naskh', 'Geeza Pro', 'Simplified Arabic', 'Noto Sans Thai', Thonburi, Dokchampa, 'Droid Sans Thai', 'Droid Sans Fallback', -apple-system, '.SFNSDisplay-Regular', 'Heiti SC', 'Microsoft Yahei', 'Segoe UI'; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro', Meiryo, 'Hiragino Sans GB W3', 'Noto Naskh Arabic', 'Droid Arabic Naskh', 'Geeza Pro', 'Simplified Arabic', 'Noto Sans Thai', Thonburi, Dokchampa, 'Droid Sans Thai', 'Droid Sans Fallback', -apple-system, '.SFNSDisplay-Regular', 'Heiti SC', 'Microsoft Yahei', 'Segoe UI'; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">However, since the racing industry is suffering from a lack of public goodwill due to the excessive online betting company promotion of recent years, a new POC would probably have general public support at the detriment of the industry and operators.</span></div><div class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro', Meiryo, 'Hiragino Sans GB W3', 'Noto Naskh Arabic', 'Droid Arabic Naskh', 'Geeza Pro', 'Simplified Arabic', 'Noto Sans Thai', Thonburi, Dokchampa, 'Droid Sans Thai', 'Droid Sans Fallback', -apple-system, '.SFNSDisplay-Regular', 'Heiti SC', 'Microsoft Yahei', 'Segoe UI'; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro', Meiryo, 'Hiragino Sans GB W3', 'Noto Naskh Arabic', 'Droid Arabic Naskh', 'Geeza Pro', 'Simplified Arabic', 'Noto Sans Thai', Thonburi, Dokchampa, 'Droid Sans Thai', 'Droid Sans Fallback', -apple-system, '.SFNSDisplay-Regular', 'Heiti SC', 'Microsoft Yahei', 'Segoe UI'; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">I’ve written and put this solution to the Australian Sports Commission during their consultation phase.
It will bring back the goodwill, grow the industry, attract new participants and create punters for the future.
Time the industry worked together to ensure racing's future.</span><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can read it here: <a href="https://about.rewardbet.com/funding-aus-sport-proposal/" class="">https://about.rewardbet.com/funding-aus-sport-proposal/</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers, Greg.</div></body></html>