'payout rates' on the TAB render it highly unlikely to win after three or four bets and impossible to win beyond ten bets without 'insider-knowledge'

Graham West (then member for Campbelltown) presented the Totalizator Amendment Bill 2008 which includes:

“these two measures allowed the TAB to move individual product rates up and down, within the constraints of the annual average limit of 16 per cent and a top rate for any one product of 25 per cent.

The proposed changes will continue to protect TAB punters from any form of price gouging.

The changes will leave the 25 per cent maximum take-out rate in place, and will replace the 16 per cent annual average cap with a defined cap for each betting pool currently offered by Tabcorp.

Those caps will be set at the current rates being charged for each product, which are as follows:

Type of wager        Retained by TAB
     win                                 14.5% 
     place                             14.25%
     quinella                         14.75%
     exacta                            16.5%
     trifecta                           21%
     duet                               14.5%
     doubles                         17%
     first 4                              22.5%
     quadrella                       20%
     Big6                                25%
     FootyTAB                       25%

Re protect above.  Who was Graham West then trying to protect?  Finally, Graham West saw the light .