Bookies in the Dock: Drugs, Escorts and Sport's Gambling Reckoning

The Senate inquiry into online gambling just got its fireworks. TAB Corp and Sportsbet stand accused of offering big-spending punters drugs, escorts and thousands of dollars a week in inducements to keep them betting, according to explosive evidence from former NRL player Luke Bateman. Bateman told the inquiry that as a 23-year-old he was regularly invited to VIP events around the country — and in one case did drugs with the bosses of an unnamed sports betting...