More likely the AFL is concerned about the online bookmakers that pour vast amounts of money both to the AFL and the media (radio & TV broadcasters as well as print).Windy_Hill wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 5:01 pm It starts with broadcasters. The AFL is doing whatever it can to honor its Broadcasting Rights revenue. But now is the time for those companies to bite the bullet and waive contractual obligations and continue to honour their financial commitment. The AFL should then use the funds to support the clubs who in turn compensate out of pocket members...ie, their customers.
If Airlines can offer credit notes for cancelled flights, so to should members receive a similar compensation.
But it has to start at the top of the food chain.
I wonder why Australians are the largest per capita gamblers in the world ... NOT!
Note, per person - Australians average $11,631 on gambling per person per year in turnover (excluding SP and sweeps) - this is 40% more than the next largest country (Singapore) and 60% higher than the USA.
Australia is also the largest in gambling losses - 24 billion Australian dollars (2018), On a per-capita basis, Australians lose far and away the most in the world: more than 1,200 Australian dollars every year more than double the losses in the USA and 50% more than Singapore.
(Source: QLD Government Treasury, https://www.qgso.qld.gov.au/statistics/ ... statistics
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/worl ... hines.html)