Associate Professor Eric Windholz facilitates Sport Integrity Australia’s Match-Fixing Working Group Forum
Australia has entered what has been labelled the ‘Green and Gold’ decade - a decade during which Australia will be hosting a number of major sporting events in the lead up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. With these sporting events come incredible opportunities, and we hope amazing sporting moments. But they also attract risks and threats. One of those threats is match-fixing.
With this in mind, Sport Integrity Australia brought together Australia’s major sporting organisations, wagering companies, law enforcement agencies and other key regulators, with the goal of establishing a working group to prevent and disrupt match-fixing at major events. Monash Law’s Associate Professor Eric Windholz was invited to facilitate the session.
Held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (where else!) on 15 October, the group discussed the threat match-fixing poses to Australian sport, the link between match-fixing and gambling, and the increasingly prominent role organised crime is playing in match-fixing endeavours.
Importantly, the group also shared with each other their already formidable capacity to prevent and disrupt match-fixing, and their commitment to work together collaboratively to address the threat. Reflecting on the Forum, Associate Professor Windholz said: “The threat of match-fixing is real and significant. But so too is the commitment of all members of Australian sport’s eco-system to combat it. This should give all Australians confidence that Australia’s major events will remain clean events.”
For more information on Sport Integrity Australia’s role in combatting match-fixing, see its webpage on competition manipulation and sports wagering.
See Associate Professor Windholz’s academic profile and publications.