Betting firms respond to claims made by anti-gambling campaigners Tim Costello and Luke Bateman at parliamentary inquiry

Former NRL player Luke Bateman told a Senate inquiry he was often invited to VIP events and in one case did drugs with the bosses of an unnamed bookmaker.

“I was out in this room doing drugs with all of them. This is like the CEO, the founders, the VIP managers,” the former NRL player told a Senate inquiry.