The Australian Financial Review covered Lottoland and moves my Pauline Hanson to act against the business.
The newest kid on the online wagering block, who recently nabbed the naming rights to Manly Warringah’s Brookvale Oval, was back in the spotlight last week – not that anyone noticed. As the Senate plodded its way through laws to rein in foreign-owned betting companies, the First Lady of Ipswich, Pauline Hanson, moved a barely noticed package of legislative amendments designed to outlaw the Gibraltar-based Lottoland and throw a lifeline to the struggling newsagent industry.
I was interviewed for the piece. I wish they had room to write more of what I said as I went into detail of the harm the Lottoland ads are doing in their mocking of small business newsagents and how Tatts as a business is running dead on the challenge.
“Newsagents are furious, but are all too cowed by Tatts to do or say anything about it,” says newsagency blogger and industry spokesman Mark Fletcher. “They’re a tough business to deal with.”
The Lottoland campaign to discredit newsagents is working based on the claimed Lottoland numbers and sales data I have seen for plenty of newsagency businesses.,