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on closer inspection, it's both feet in the mouth for V'Landys

Hyprocritical muppet. I'll leave it at that.


Productivity Commission Gambling Report Represents Community View


from Racing NSW CEO Peter V'Landys:

"The Productivity Commission allowed presentations from a myriad of wagering operators but at no time sought to provide Racing NSW with the opportunity to make a presentation on behalf of its 50,000 participants."

V'Landys fails to point out that Racing NSW did in fact make a submission, which was mostly ignored, much to his chagrin.

In terms of poetic justice he might like to reflect on the very limited consultation process that Racing NSW engaged in when formulating its race fields strategy. Submissions were not considered from any wagering operator other than TabCorp and the one provided by Betfair was ignored.


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Racing NSW is furious that any party would want to dictate what it should charge for its racing, saying:

"The two most ridiculous recommendations are that an independent organisation set the price of that racing product. Does that mean every commercial operation in Australia could have its price set by someone other than themselves - which could send them broke?"

Given that Racing NSW is currently charging double the amount of Victoria for roughly half the quality of racing suggests that its high time that control of such pricing be placed in the hands of an independent body before Racing NSW sends itself broke.


Only a month to go before he gets laughed at in court, andhopefully silenced forever. I wonder how many moronic rants we will hear before then.

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