NRL welcome Liberal Party policy

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<big>NRL welcome Liberal Party policy</big>
NRL Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:20:00


Club's like Manly will be beneficiaries of the proposed legislation by NSW Opposition Leader the Hon Barry O’Farrell Copyright: Action Photographics

The National Rugby League has welcomed a commitment from the NSW Opposition Leader the Hon Barry O’Farrell that would give leagues clubs greater opportunity to support football clubs.

Struggling under the weight of NSW poker machine taxes, Leagues Clubs have been forced to strip over ten million dollars from NRL teams since 2005.

The proposed change would see Leagues clubs allowed to have their contribution to professional football clubs recognised as the genuine community investment it is by acknowledging the funding is a commitment by members to support Rugby League.

Current funding to professional football clubs receives no government recognition and cannot be included in any level of ‘community funding’ by the Leagues Clubs.

“Leagues clubs were established to help communities fund their football club and that is what this change will allow them to do,” NRL Chief Executive, Mr David Gallop, said today.

“Increasingly the current system is making it impossible for them to achieve their primary purpose.

“These changes would ensure that club’s maintained their strong community commitment through Category 1 funding but that they could also support the football clubs that are at the heart of their members.

“It is a step that will prove vital to the future of some of our clubs and our clubs strongly support the policy.”

Clubs NSW estimates that the changes will see Leagues Clubs able to contribute up to an extra $10.2 million over the next four years.

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[hammertime]

Fantastic Policy. These are non-profit organizations that not only help the community, but are sometimes the center of it. One of the places pensioners can feel comfortable going to spend their retirement hours.

As usual, Labor have come out with cash-handout policy to buy votes.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Fantastic Policy. These are non-profit organizations that not only help the community, but are sometimes the center of it. One of the places pensioners can feel comfortable going to spend their retirement hours.

As usual, Labor have come out with cash-handout policy to buy votes.

Not to mention what has become the customary "We're sorry we grossly underachieved. But hey, give us another go and we will try to do better…" speech.

Good news regarding the Pokie tax though. Fatty O'Barrell is on a winner there, even if it is just a vote grab.

 

[Yossarian]

The pokie tax could have been better thought out but a lot of those big clubs are giant monuments to egos and mismanagement. A lot of those clubs need to be investigated - the % of money fed back into the community is a piddling amound of the stack of dough desperates plow through the pokies thanks to the incompetencies and downright thievery of some of the people in charge.

 

[hammertime]

The pokie tax could have been better thought out but a lot of those big clubs are giant monuments to egos and mismanagement. A lot of those clubs need to be investigated - the % of money fed back into the community is a piddling amound of the stack of dough desperates plow through the pokies thanks to the incompetencies and downright thievery of some of the people in charge.

I don't know any club board members, but I can understand that there may be ego's and mismanagement. But I wouldn't think there would be a tonne of corruption going on. Any sane person wouldn't let their gravy train collapse if the were benefiting from it.

I actually don't mind the pokies. There are some bad sides to it, but the focus on them is crazy. It's just as bad as Horse Racing and Online Gambling. Any tighter controls will just shift gambling profits from the non-profit organizations (clubs) that help the community, to privately run enterprises.

They need direct policy to stop people spending wasting food money that should be going into their kids mouths. It's not PC, but I suggest that if there is family neglect found by DOCS from problem gambling, enforce part of a persons wage/dole to food credit.

 

[Yossarian]

The pokie tax could have been better thought out but a lot of those big clubs are giant monuments to egos and mismanagement. A lot of those clubs need to be investigated - the % of money fed back into the community is a piddling amound of the stack of dough desperates plow through the pokies thanks to the incompetencies and downright thievery of some of the people in charge.

I don't know any club board members, but I can understand that there may be ego's and mismanagement. But I wouldn't think there would be a tonne of corruption going on. Any sane person wouldn't let their gravy train collapse if the were benefiting from it.

I actually don't mind the pokies. There are some bad sides to it, but the focus on them is crazy. It's just as bad as Horse Racing and Online Gambling. Any tighter controls will just shift gambling profits from the non-profit organizations (clubs) that help the community, to privately run enterprises.

They need direct policy to stop people spending wasting food money that should be going into their kids mouths. It's not PC, but I suggest that if there is family neglect found by DOCS from problem gambling, enforce part of a persons wage/dole to food credit.

Problem is, any bozo can be in charge of handling clubs will multi-million dollar turnovers - no experience, no interviews, no qualifications. It's only a gravy train for some of them if they are doing the dodgy. Most club elections are a few hundred people out of thousands of members. There is a genuine lack of oversight in clubland. I'm not even talking about cracking down on the pokies - just the people who run them.

Let me add, I'm sure the vast majority of people who are on boards are tireless workers who do a stack of work for free or close to it. But you only need to look at some of the megaclubs to see the money involved. And once they're in, boards are notoriously hard to shift.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Former Penrith Leagues club board members have been scrunity to investigation, particularly with when they were channeling contracts to his own private company.

You're right on the money Yoss. You only need to look at the ridiculous upgrades that have just been undertaken at Panthers and you know that pokie slum is still making plenty of money. It's a disgrace.