Lottoland has argued the ALNA backlash against its business has been little more than a smear campaign, designed to protect Tatts\u2019 semi-monopoly on Australian lotteries.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Brill offered to strike a profit-sharing deal with the country\u2019s newsagents that would them allow them to earn an affiliate commission of 20 percent of the profits for every bet they refer to Lottoland.<\/p>\n
Rather than address the shocking state of its financial affairs \u2026 ALNA has inexplicably taken part in an AU$5 million ($3.8 million) lobbying campaign to convince the government to ban online lottery betting, which will leave newsagents at the mercy of a Tabcorp (Tatts) monopoly,\u201d Brill said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nALNA Strikes Back<\/strong><\/h2>\nOn Wednesday, ALNA hit back against Brill’s claims, stating that it\u00a0is “solvent and is trading within the confines of the law.”<\/p>\n
“Any suggestion to the contrary by deliberately misrepresenting ANF financial information is unethical and defamatory,” it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has not been any misrepresentation of figures of any kind by ALNA \u2013 only by Lottoland who have been aggressively spreading defamatory rumours based on inaccurate and incomplete information,\u201d it continued, adding that it represented 2,000 member newsagents and had never claimed anything to the contrary.<\/p>\n
ALNA said it had instructed its lawyers to pursue all legal avenues against the “false claims” made by Lottoland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lottoland is fighting back against ALNA, the organization that spearheaded the push to criminalize secondary lotteries in Australia, as it called once again for Aussie lawmakers to reconsider the proposed ban. ALNA (the Australian Lotteries and Newsagents Association) is an industry body representing lottery operators and vendors (a newsagent is the catch-all term in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":76826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13699,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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