Racenet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat a great day for Southern Cross Bet and the latest member of our team, Luke Bateman,\u201d a social post from the day read.<\/p>\n
\u201cLuke held our first customer function today at Eagle Farm racecourse and it was a great success.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe former Canberra Raider did a fantastic job and looks better suited in this role (as an account manager) than tackling the likes of Jason Taumalolo.\u201d<\/p>\n
When contacted by Racenet about Bateman\u2019s role with Southern Cross Bet, the brand\u2019s former principal Mark Johnstone politely declined to comment.<\/p>\n
The fact Bateman failed to declare his past role within the profession during Monday\u2019s inquiry has been met with dismay by quarters of the industry.<\/p>\n
Bateman went on to allege that he was invited to exclusive events hosted at a rental property on the Gold Coast where he took illicit drugs with senior gambling officials, including account managers, from an undisclosed betting operator.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is like the CEO, the founders, the VIP managers and you know at that stage I would have been 23 years of age,\u201d Bateman said.<\/p>\n
That led to ACT independent Senator David Pocock asking Bateman if account managers working on commission were aware of the behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only did they know, they were participating in it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former rugby league player who dropped a bomb on this week\u2019s Senate inquiry into gambling advertising by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83946,83974,83960,44010,46167,83939,83947,83972,83970,83992,74028,82156,83996,83975,77684,83995,83963,43619,83941,83973,83966,83993,83976,83983,35364,83953,83984,83943,83956,22,83967,21,83951,83940,83986,83942,7445,56917,83978,83952,40814,83965,41802,3014,83954,83990,57301,3825,83950,83985,83948,83994,5774,618,83988,82631,83981,37045,83944,83945,42903,83959,77794,83989,51314,59184,83962,83977,4238,83979,83991,41631,70666,54788,83955,83964,52794,49984,40674,36756,39261,77590,14897,83980,83961,83949,39814,68894,44441,83958,39402,83987,37026,83957,83982,83968,38224,83971,83938,44918,40084,83969,64152,38964,31666],"class_list":["post-66766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-account-managers","tag-s-former-principal","tag-s-gambling-crusade","tag-s-inquiry","tag-s-role","tag-s-senate-inquiry","tag-s-senate-probe","tag-s-startling-testimony","tag-s-sweeping-gambling-advertising-reform","tag-2020-bateman","tag-23-years","tag-a-bomb","tag-a-business-development-manager","tag-a-customer-function","tag-a-fantastic-job","tag-a-great-day","tag-a-great-success","tag-a-message","tag-a-rental-property","tag-a-senate-inquiry-one-glaring-detail","tag-a-shock-twist","tag-a-social-post","tag-account-managers","tag-act-independent-senator-david-pocock","tag-age","tag-an-official-role","tag-an-account-manager","tag-an-undisclosed-betting-operator","tag-any-drugs","tag-au","tag-august-2020","tag-austrlia","tag-bateman","tag-bateman-said-that","tag-bookmaker-account-manager","tag-comment-the","tag-commission","tag-detail","tag-dismay","tag-eagle-farm-racecourse","tag-earlier-this-week","tag-exclusive-events","tag-fact","tag-football","tag-friendships-and-bonds","tag-gambling-account-managers","tag-gambling-advertising","tag-headlines","tag-hey-mate","tag-his-gambling-addiction","tag-his-past-role","tag-his-retirement","tag-illicit-drugs","tag-jason-taumalolo","tag-luke","tag-luke-bateman","tag-mark-johnstone","tag-monday","tag-nobody-else","tag-our-first-customer-function","tag-our-team","tag-previous-role","tag-punters","tag-quarters","tag-racenet","tag-representatives","tag-retired-league-star-luke-bateman","tag-retired-rugby-league-star-luke-bateman","tag-senate-inquiry","tag-senior-gambling-officials","tag-southern-cross-bet","tag-star","tag-testimony","tag-that-stage","tag-the-account-manager-but","tag-the-alleged-move","tag-the-behaviour","tag-the-brand","tag-the-ceo","tag-the-day","tag-the-event","tag-the-expectation","tag-the-federal-government","tag-the-former-canberra-raider","tag-the-former-rugby-league-player","tag-the-founders","tag-the-gold-coast","tag-the-heights","tag-the-industry","tag-the-industry-bateman","tag-the-inquiry","tag-the-latest-member","tag-the-likes","tag-the-now-defunct-wagering-brand-southern-cross-bet","tag-the-offers","tag-the-one-time-canberra-raiders-star","tag-the-profession","tag-the-vip-managers","tag-the-wagering-companies","tag-the-week","tag-the-weekend","tag-their-company","tag-this-role","tag-this-week","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}