News Sydney venue moves $26m in pokies profits to NRL club as ‘community development and support’

[Chris Harding]

Nasheed here,
Firstly the reason it’s gone from 4.5 mil to 10 mil the year after is because of Covid yo.
Secondly.
What’s wrong with doggs?
If you’re going to get all this money from pokies (aka drug dealers) and claim community benefits they need to be a lot wiser in how they spend the money than just giving it to Gus.
Yes that’s why the leagues was created but if we abuse it it’ll be taken away as ppl is pushing for by the sounds of it yayay

Let's get some balance and compare the other clubs' donations to their football teams.

 

[Chris Harding]

They do know Canterbury league has also got restaurants and gym that make them money as well right?
Or that doesn’t fit in what they are trying to do.

They are subsidised by the gambling.

 

[Reecek89]

Broncos leagues club and Chanel 9 pump money into the broncos but no article about that.

 

[Chris Harding]

Exactly. Lefty media probably want it to support community issues such as giving millions to the .001% transgender people within the community.. rather than waste millions to help out tens of thousands of people (the supporters) in the area.

Don't think so. The media is right wing in this country. They hate the Dogs because of our location in an ethnic area that the right dislikes.

 

[King Gus]

They are subsidised by the gambling.

So the restaurants and cafes and gym don’t make the club money?

 

[B-Train]

Funny how they make an article about our leagues club and football club and ignore the fact that most other clubs in the NRL have huge leagues clubs that give huge amounts of money to the football club...

 

[King Gus]

Funny how they make an article about our leagues club and football club and ignore the fact that most other clubs in the NRL have huge leagues clubs that give huge amounts of money to the football club...

Double standards as always

 

[KLil]

How do you measure the football clubs mental contribution to the community?

 

[King Gus]

How do you measure the football clubs mental contribution to the community?

Tape measure

 

[wendog33]

How do you measure the football clubs mental contribution to the community?

They've sent us ALL mental?

 

[KLil]

They've sent us ALL mental?

To a certain degree, ABSOLUTELY!

 

[Achilles]

What a joke of an article, just mentioning Canterbury Leagues. Its all legal and most NRL clubs do the same.

"these funds could have done so much to help people in the community with the cost-of-living crisis,” Cameron said.
HEY Cameron, how about pushing the Government to lower our income tax to battle the cost of living crisis.

 

[D0GMATIC]

Tape measure

Now you're just being silly . . . They'd use a measuring cup

 

[King Gus]

Now you're just being silly . . . They'd use a measuring cup

Oh snap

 

[Shnissss]

What a joke of an article, just mentioning Canterbury Leagues. Its all legal and most NRL clubs do the same.

"these funds could have done so much to help people in the community with the cost-of-living crisis,” Cameron said.
HEY Cameron, how about pushing the Government to lower our income tax to battle the cost of living crisis.

No one would click on the article if it just read ‘rugby league clubs do …’

People only click if they see bulldogs in the title

 

[Shnissss]

All the people who have made comment in the article, would all be funded,at least in part, by public money. Hardly surprising they want more of it.

Exactly this. Each time you read an article like this do some quick research on the person who wrote it, is quoted in it or is commenting on it. You’ll quickly see through the agenda

 

[Shnissss]

All the people who have made comment in the article, would all be funded,at least in part, by public money. Hardly surprising they want more of it.

Exactly this. Each time you read an article like this do some quick research on the person who wrote it, is quoted in it or is commenting on it. You’ll quickly see through the agenda

 

[D- voice]

Sydney venue moves $26m in pokies profits to NRL club as ‘community development and support’

Canterbury leagues club has given millions to the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs since 2014-15

www.theguardian.com

Canterbury leagues club has given millions to the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs since 2014-15

One of Australia’s biggest poker machine venues has shifted more than $26m in gambling profits over eight years to its parent company – an NRL club – while claiming the payments as a community benefit for a tax cut.

In New South Wales, clubs that donate a percentage of gambling profits to community causes receive a tax concession under a scheme called ClubsGrants, which is under review by the state government after years of sustained criticism.


The scheme allows clubs to secure a tax break by using poker machine profits to pay off their operating costs or those of an associated entity. This has led to claims the scheme is a “shameless rort” that must be immediately scrapped.



Since 2014-15, the Canterbury leagues club in western Sydney – which had 634 poker machines as of 31 May – has paid $26.4m to its holding entity, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. These payments, which are legal and within the rules, were categorised as “community development and support initiatives”.

The amount of money transferred to the NRL club was significantly larger than what was spent on non-affiliated local community groups under the scheme, according to the league club’s financial statements.
Last year, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs reported a consolidated entity profit of $10m after tax. A year earlier it was $4.5m and in 2020 it was $4.4m.ClubGrants was, according to official guidelines, “designed to ensure that larger registered clubs in NSW contribute to the provision of frontline services to their local communities; and to ensure that the disadvantaged in the community are better positioned to benefit from the substantial contributions made by those clubs”.The NSW Council for Social Service, which abandoned its 25-year association with the ClubGrants program last year after its own review identified alleged conflicts of interest, believed the scheme no longer reflects community expectations.


“The ClubGrants scheme does not reflect 21st-century standards and expectations for a taxpayer funded grants program – it is a broken model and has been from the beginning,” said the Ncoss chief executive, Joanna Quilty.

Wesley Mission’s chief executive, the Rev Stu Cameron, who is part of the NSW government’s expert panel on gambling reform, said the payments were legal but “illustrate what is fundamentally wrong with the ClubGrants scheme”.


“Rather than throwing the cashed-up Bulldogs several multimillion-dollar bones over the last few years for ‘running expenses’, these funds could have done so much to help people in the community with the cost-of-living crisis,” Cameron said.

Cameron noted the Canterbury Leagues Club had donated to many local initiatives that improved the living standards of “low income and disadvantaged people”, but said “the amounts allocated seem scandalously disproportionate to the financial support granted to a prosperous NRL club”.

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Canterbury leagues club were contacted for comment.

The state Greens MP Cate Faehrmann, the party’s spokesperson on gambling issues, said the scheme needed to be urgently scrapped or overhauled.

“The larger clubs like to talk up a big game when it comes to giving back to their local community, yet the vast majority of grants are going straight to their own wealthy sporting clubs,” Faehrmann said.

A spokesperson for the minister for gaming, David Harris, said ClubGrants review would “help determine whether the scheme continues to represent value for money to the people of NSW”

Another boring attack on our club...
Question, why single out our club when all clubs do the same ?
Is our football team's eminent recovery to former greatness the result of these grants is the target ?

 

[John Matrix]

Next do Uncle Nick "The Guardian"

 

[jpneves]

I think the club is aware this was going to happen. I think they are working on alternatives. A lot more sponsorship etc etc. It probably won’t get to what the leagues clubs gives the football club. Of course we get singled out. Im in Canberra and we have four ‘raiders clubs’ panthers have more than one leagues club. So again unfair to pick on the dogs