Tabcorp
Analysis
Gaming & wagering
Winners and losers: Why the gambling world is looking shaky
The country’s biggest wagering companies are making less money than ever.
- by Amelia McGuire
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Opinion
Earnings season
Gill’s knockdown rebuild in the house of Tabcorp
Three weeks into the top job, former AFL boss Gill McLachlan has decided not to renovate the betting company. Instead, he is reaching for the sledgehammer.
- by Elizabeth Knight
McLachlan scraps Tabcorp’s strategy after $1.4b shock loss
New Tabcorp boss Gillon McLachlan has vowed to overhaul the wagering company’s strategy, and warns it will continue to be hit by softer trading conditions as its share price tanked.
- by Amelia McGuire
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Political leadership
The high-profile powerbrokers with a big idea to make Australia better
A new grassroots organisation with “the head of a think-tank and the heart of a community organisation” hopes to solve gnarly policy issues.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Victorian gambling watchdog takes Tabcorp to task for code breaches
Tabcorp has been forced to pay a record $4.6 million fine in Victoria, but has found an ally in its push for a total ban on televised gambling advertising.
- by Amelia McGuire
Ex Tabcorp boss claims he was forced to quit despite denial of lewd comments
Adam Rytenskild has told the court he was blindsided by the claims given he was not interviewed by the law firm engaged by his ex-employer Tabcorp and was forced by the board into resigning “in a panic” despite denying he did anything wrong.
- by Amelia McGuire
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Unfair dismissal
Former Tabcorp boss launches action against wagering giant after sudden exit
Adam Rytenskild is taking his former employer to the workplace tribunal five months after departing over allegations of inappropriate conduct.
- by Chris Barrett
Gillon’s Tabcorp looks to pull down tote windows
Gillon McLachlan’s Tabcorp is looking to end decades of racing tradition by shutting down on-course totes as well as slashing funding for radio station RSN 927.
- by Danny Russell
Racing NSW, Tabcorp end $6 million lawsuit days before McLachlan starts new role
The former AFL supremo will have one less issue to worry about when he starts at the ASX-listed giant after a potentially long and costly court case was discontinued.
- by Adam Pengilly
Luxe Listings star Gavin Rubinstein has a Lamborghini problem
The whole fast-living schtick that made the celebrity real estate agent’s show such a hit has come to bite.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Opinion
Gambling
Does something stink about Gil McLachlan’s new appointment? You bet!
The former AFL chief’s appointment as head of gambling giant Tabcorp illustrates the cosy, symbiotic relationship between broadcasting, gambling and sporting bodies.
- by Charles Livingstone