Malcolm Speed
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666 appearances
8 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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I understand the reticence and both arguments are sound.
New South Wales argument is basically, let's not sell the farm.
Let's try to grow revenue from other sources.
Well, that's fine.
That's a business as usual.
That's what Cricket Australia, Cricket New South Wales will be trying to do anyway.
There's no magic solution there.
There's not going to be a new form of revenue that pops up that provides enough money to do this.
The other argument is we need money to be able to join this arms race to sustain our league.
I'm reluctant to get into a bidding war here, but we need to be competitive.
We need to be able to compete with the other leagues.
So I've come around a bit, Gerard.
I think if we could see enough guardrails, enough provisos in place, I think...
I could support the SEL group.
Now, the sorts of things I'm talking about, and I think the best example of this is the Australian Olympic Committee received $88 million for hosting the Sydney Olympics.
They've set up a foundation there where they've now turned that, they've funded, they've invested it well, they've funded their operations, a lot of their operations through
made grants to athletes, that sort of thing.
It now sits at $170 million and it's a future fund there that underpins the Australian Olympic Committee.
Now, if there's $600, $800 million available to cricket here, if you could put $400 million into a fund like that,
and invest it wisely and out of that pay an increase in the salary cap, perhaps two million per team.
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