banned in Australia in 2016. <\/a><\/p>\nBringing in-play betting back under the supervision of Australian regulators would make it easier for the proposed integrity commission to monitor for suspicious patterns in the\u00a0 betting markets, suggests the report. Such a move would run contrary to the recent government trend of deliberalization of gambling in Australia and would be controversial.<\/p>\n
The report was commissioned largely as a reaction to the Essendon scandal in Australian rules football. In 2013, Australian Football League team Essendon was probed by the ASADA over the legality of its supplements program.<\/p>\n
After a four-year investigation, 34 team members were found guilty of having used the banned peptide Thymosin beta-4 and were handed suspensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tough new sports integrity rules proposed by Australia\u2019s federal sports minister Bridget McKenzie would see athletes who collude with bookmakers fined or imprisoned following a trial in a new \u201cnational sports court.\u201d The proposals follow the recommendations of a government-backed report into the risks facing Australian sports, published this week. The report advocates making match-fixing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":85064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,61,18943,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Australia Wants Prison Terms for Match-fixing Athletes<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n