Luke Bateman tells inquiry gambling companies supplied him with cocaine and alcohol

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Former rugby league star Luke Bateman has alleged gambling company promoters supplied him with cocaine and alcohol, telling a parliamentary inquiry the betting industry exercised no duty of care. Bateman, who is now a TikTok star and influential in the “BookTok” community, told the inquiry on Monday morning he attended a private Gold Coast event hosted by a gambling company at which senior figures took illicit drugs with clients. He called on the Albanese government to go further in its plans to limit gambling advertising, saying vulnerable people needed tougher protections. “There were times where I would be flown interstate and taken to race days, put in marquees with alcohol…

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