Corruption in Australian sport
This is not a new issue in Australia, recent high profile cases and international interest has seen a reassessment of Australia’s susceptibility to issues like use of insider information for betting purposes, match fixing, and using image and performance enhancing drugs.
Corruption in sport is seen as match-fixing often, defined by Maennig as:
“the form of behaviour by athletes who refrain from achieving the levels of performance normally required in the sport in question to win the competition and instead intentionally permit others to win, or behaviour by sporting officials who consciously perform their allocated tasks in a manner in variance with the objectives and moral values of the relevant club, association,…