Funding for NRL clubs under proposed pokie reforms.

2. MANDATORY PRE-COMMITMENT
• ‘Licence to punt’.
• Set bet limit online.
• Lockout once reached.

3. $10,000,000,000

4. PROBLEM GAMBLERS
• Five million affected- themselves, families, employers.
• Social cost to community = $4.7 billion.
• Only 15% seek help.
• Three quarters have problems with poker machines.

5. PROBLEM GAMBLERS
• Lose around $21,000 each year (one third of salary).
• Productivity Commission recommend pre-commitment.

6. JUST 2.7%?!

9. CLUBS AUSTRALIA
• Pokies= 40-60% of each club’s total revenue.
• Cost to industry est. $3 billion.
• Canterbury Leagues: Installation- $9.54 million
Annual Income Reduction- $27.4 million.

10. ‘To propagate the game of rugby
league at junior and senior
levels and to generally support
the community’.

12. RUGBY LEAGUE
• Continues to grow and develop:
*3.2 million Australians watched 2011 NRL Grand Final live
on free-to-air.
*One fifth of Australians ‘must watch’ State of Origin.
*NRL provides employment for 20,500 people.

13. ST GEORGE LEAGUES
• Cut 200 jobs
• No funding to Dragons NRL team from 2014.

17. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
• Wealth= success on and off the field?
• Lack of community input?

19. MEMBERSHIPS
• Dropped off badly in 2011.
• Need new ideas.
• Community feel.

20. TO FINISH…

21. CREDITS
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BY SEAN DOWNIE (u3052876)