Page 547 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 12 April 1994
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... on Thursday, 2 September ... A punter in our Erindale agency was the only winner in the linked trifecta pool and won $40,572 ... If the same punter had placed the same trifecta bet and ACTTAB trifectas were not linked to VicTAB, he would have won only $3,400. So there is an attraction to get involved in it.
There is more. On 17 March, on the Matthew Abraham show, Mr Berry said:
They discovered that the ACT was the successful tenderer.
... ... ...
... so my involvement has been at arm's length all the way.
He gave a signed authority, as he had to under the Act; but suddenly Mr Berry can smell a rat somewhere, and he is at arm's length all the way. Let us start blaming somebody else; let us start blaming anybody. He went on:
... I was not able to predict what the Victorian TAB would do.
There he is blaming Victoria. He also said:
The proposal was vetted.
Wayne Berry again said:
The directors were checked by Price Waterhouse.
We now know that the directors were not checked by Price Waterhouse. All Price Waterhouse did, as Mr Berry said to the Assembly, was a company check. Either he has misled the Assembly or he has misled the community, or he has done both. You cannot have it both ways.
Had Mr Berry bothered to read the agreement with Victoria he would have known that no reason had to be given for expelling us. Had he bothered to contact the Minister or the TAB, he would have known that the main reason was VITAB. Had he listened to New South Wales, he would have known that their concern was VITAB. Had he spoken to Mr Neck, he would have known that VicTAB had informed ACTTAB in the first week in February that the deal was off; that no further discussions would be entered into. That was one month before he came into this Assembly and said that everything was okay. Mr Clive Hooke, the chief executive officer of VicTAB, confirmed in writing that no reason is required to expel from the pool. They had to give no reasons at all. Mr Berry should have known that; of course he knew that.
After blaming everybody else in Australia for what had happened to him, on the Matthew Abraham show he also involved his colleague the Chief Minister when he said:
... and the Chief Minister has been briefed all the way.
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