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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Len,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’m so sick of all this woke business!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">On another issue, you cannot trust Sportsbet’s final fixed prices at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I place significant bets on a horse with 1 or 2 seconds to go, and then they close the race with higher odds on that horse whilst all other horses remain at the same odds!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">How can this happen, it’s like they are taunting me or trying to draw customers via false odds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It happens so often that I’m going to stop using them, because there is false or underhanded information being displayed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Lindsay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Racing <racing-bounces@ausrace.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>L.B.Loveday<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 23 November 2023 7:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> racing@ausrace.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusRace] GUYS, SPORTSBET AND EVANS HAVE GONE WOKE!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">This article is from the November 23 issue of Australian Financial Review Digital Edition. To subscribe, visit
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There are a few corners of the cultural landscape which still exist to craft and propagate toxic stereotypes for the Great Aussie Male. But they are dwindling.
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Even Pat Cummins has turned cricket woke, standing against dirty sponsors and hosting Simon and Garfunkel listening parties. Look how that turned out!
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One last bastion has been this country’s gambling companies, which have spent decades plastering TV, radio and social media with low-rent ads, tailored to blokes aged 18 to 35.
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In an incredible twist, even the bookies have fallen. At a recent internal presentation, foreign-owned Sportsbet informed staff about some new language guidelines. Under the banner, ‘‘ Words matter’’ , the powerpoint slide laid out some new ways to address
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Staff should no longer use ‘‘ Hi guys, lads, gents’’ . It’s been replaced by, ‘‘ Hi everyone, hi all, hi folks’’ . ‘‘ She’ ’ and ‘‘ he’ ’ are out, ‘‘ they’ ’ is in, that’s ‘‘ unless you know their pronouns’’ .
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In another nod to our rapidly shifting gender mores, Sportsbet employees were told not to use ‘‘ mother’ ’ or ‘‘ father’’ , but ‘‘ parents’’ . And ‘‘ wife’ ’ and ‘‘ husband’ ’ is to be replaced by ‘‘ partner’ ’ or ‘‘ significant other’’ .
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Gambling execs are even attuned to the decolonisation within language circles, asking employees to retire the words ‘‘ whitelist’ ’ and ‘‘ blacklist’’ , and instead use ‘‘ allow list’ ’ and ‘‘ deny list’’ . (White = good, black = bad, reinforces negative stereotypes)
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‘‘ We want people working at Sportsbet to know they can thrive no matter who they are, and it is important that we are having conversations that encourage understanding and inclusivity,’’ a spokesman said.
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It’s all pretty standard stuff that has been sweeping workplaces, usually pushed by overzealous ESG-types looking for problems where they don’t exist. Even BHP underwent two updates this year, retiring ‘‘ bosses’ ’ for ‘‘ supervisors’’ , ‘‘ love interest’ ’
for ‘‘ boyfriend/girlfriend’’ , and our favourite, dumping ‘‘ brownout’ ’ for ‘‘ under frequency load shed’’ .
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But gee, this going-on at the Barni Evans-run Sportsbet, the country’s largest online bookmaker, really takes the cake.
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In 2015, Sportsbet opened a market to bet on the new name for newly transitioned Caitlyn Jenner, running with the tagline: ‘‘ Fair play to Bruce, it takes a lot of balls to em ... cut off your balls.’’ Sportsbet apologised after an online outcry.
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Or during the pandemic, Sportsbet ran a TV ad which featured two fellas whipping each other with towels, including the line, ‘‘ The bloke’s nearly as whipped as Prince Harry’’ . It fell foul of the ad standards bureau, with Sportsbet trying to argue with a
straight face that the regulator was wrong to claim it was a reference to being ‘‘ pussy-whipped’’ .
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Midwits at News Corp like to screech that ‘‘ go woke, go broke’’ . But we’re not sure gambling addicts placing a bet on Manchester United versus Everton this weekend will be worried about correct pronoun use.
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Copyright © 2023 Australian Financial Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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