Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "7NEWS Australia" channel.

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  3. It's not bribery @chrispapa2782  it's far more complicated than that. For starters Cricket Australia aren't paying money. If anything the NSW government are paying them money to still hold the event. All major sporting events generate large volumes of stimulus for a local economy and make up a significant portion of the operating budget for some government departments and services. For example, all of those spectators don't magically appear at the venue. At least a 1/3 of spectators for any large event take public transportation, without those kinds of massive boosts to revenue public transport wouldn't be a sustainable service that could be offered. Of the spectators that drive, a percentage of them will try to avoid parking fees by parking illegally in the surrounding streets. Those vehicles represent significant revenue for the council through fines and enforcements. After the game all of those spectators don't just immediately go straight home. They burn off their excitement at nearby bars, clubs and restaurants. Money that will help keep those businesses afloat and will immediately flow into the wider economy They visit casinos or pub gaming rooms, which also attract state taxes. And all of that spending is contagious, having roll on effects for the economy for several weeks after. Should Sydney have cancelled spectators at the test? Absolutely. A broadcast only game would have made Cricket Australia similar volumes of revenue and stopped the spread. There's money involved in the poor decision, no fight to keep the test going, but it's coming from the spectators. We'd never hear about the SCG as the source of spread even if it were because that would have political consequences. The real problem here is we have politicians playing politics during a pandemic instead of simply doing the public health measures necessary.
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