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A license in Tasmania will also permit Betfair to promote and market its product. Betfair's corporate director Andrew Twaits affirmed yesterday that the British team would set up a call-centre and other communications infrastructures and recruit staff to support such operation.
"We'll be hiring for a range of positions in January, the most important being a chief operating officer" for Betfair Australia, said a leading figure in the company. Most of the British team would be in place for about three months, to be slowly substituted by a local workforce of 75 workers in the first year and 150 within two years of the project.
In November, some states endangered to confuse Betfair Australia, a association of Publishing and Broadcasting and Betfair UK, which has operated from Britain since the year 2000. Stating that betting exchanges would narrow revenue from TABs and give confidence for corruption in sport, the Victorian, West Australian, South Australian and Queensland governments have threatened to force restrictions on Betfair. The future of Betfair Australia is unknown at the moment, but we'll keep monitoring for updates.
