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In what might prove to be one of the most optics-blind corporate appointments of all time, former AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan has taken a new job as the chief executive of Tabcorp, one of the biggest gambling companies in Australia, on an annual salary of $1.5 million.
It comes just a year after McLachlan, in the final throes of his term as chief executive of the country’s biggest sporting league, admitted there were too many sports gambling advertisements in Australia.
“I think there is probably too much … I just think the volume is too much.
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