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Former senator Nick Xenophon, who helped to reform the Interactive Gambling Act, said the NBL was "either treating its fans as absolute mugs, or they are the biggest mugs of all to be entering into this deal".

“This is gobsmacking. The sports minister needs to look at this from an integrity point of view. This just destroys the credibility of the game. It just shows you how poor the regulatory framework is ... I think there should be a revolt amongst the membership of the NBL because, on the face of it, they have compromised the integrity of the game.”

Wow, what hard hitting investigative journalism.

After legislation changed here which banned Australians from accessing overseas bookmakers most websites complied.

All that will happen is NBL will contact Sportsradar who will then inform the nine bookmakers to ban Australian IP address ranges. Chances are since these bookies are so obscure, like the one which was named, that no Australians were betting with them anyway.

#404 has nothing to worry about.

Exactly, it's such a fluff piece.

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I know this is off topic and I apologize in advance.

In my opinion, Nick Xenophon has rarely spoken in support of the national interest and I would not listen to a word he says.

For instance, if not for Xenophon's stance in favour of local procurement during the Gillard and then Abbott governments, Australia would soon be taking possession of new "off the shelf" subs to meet the CCP menace. Instead - if I can put this generously - Xenophon rather distorted view of the national interest delayed the sub acquisition by at least a decade. And where did Saint Nick go after his jaunt in Parliament? Employed by the Chinese state sponsored telco - Huawei. Says it all really. When the fight comes, and it will come, Australia (again) will be hopelessly underprepared. You bring to a fight, the equipment you have on hand, and the training you have received. Thanks to Nick, we won't have the equipment, and our service personnel won't have the training.

Just seems like a hit piece more than anything. Oh there's a 'scandal' everyone! The only thing that worries me is the poor crowds NBL games are getting at the moment. This offshore gaming nothing story will blow away with the wind.

NBL would benefit a lot from the money, they aren't really in a position to be a leader in giving up gambling money

Bit of a breathless piece. Isn't it ultimately the responsibility of those international sites to stay aware of gambling laws in every country they might operate?

Not the first or last time the internet exposes oddities in laws and access.

Article a massive hit job, likely by a data competitor. Article is poorly researched for an investigative journalist to get one side of story. Government missing out on taxes is the concern with offshore bookmakers. Maybe government should come in and provide funding to the sports so they don't have to take any commercial revenue? Sports need to run their business - AFL, Cricket, Soccer all have deals in place that generate significant (much more than basketball) revenue from betting, most have stopped taking betting "sponsorship" but generate plenty in the background + they benefit from gambling ads on signage at games and ads that underpin their TV rights.

^ not until they've spoken to their lawyers, and we know that things can take a long time to happen in our basketball administrations

Which sports betting company does he own?

Twitch chat during games seems to be full of overseas gamblers. Isn't it the responsibility of the overseas betting agencies to not accept Australian customers?

It's hard to take Xenophon seriously now given his post-politics career choices.

I'm not saying it’s a big issue because it probably isn’t and I don’t know what the circumstances or law is regarding this and don’t care because I don’t understand how it works. Is it what, helping gambling businesses overseas screw their clients? Gambling 101 anyway right?

But the proposition people are putting here goes something like "overseas business does the wrong thing that’s overseas business problem" but that’s not how it works - can’t wash all responsibility like that, that’s certainly not grounded in law. There are most certainly mechanisms to enforce obligations on Australian companies.