Adelaide Oval box office staff were told ‘not to sell tickets to any more Aboriginal people’ at a NAIDOC week AFL game last year.
A former staff member who worked for McArthur Recruitment and Ticketek last year at Adelaide Oval has told the ABC that a box office supervisor gave an order to stop selling tickets specifically to Aboriginal people at a NAIDOC week AFL game between Adelaide and Geelong.
The whistleblower, who quit the next day, said her supervisor gave a directive to all ticket-sellers to lie to Aboriginal patrons for over an hour, telling them the game was sold out when it was not. "She turned around and told everyone in the box office we'd been told not to sell tickets to any more Aboriginal people," she said.
A spokesperson from McArthur Recruitment, the organisation who provides staff to box offices managed by Ticketek, confirmed that the directive had been given by the supervisor, who was suspended for two weeks after the incident. McArthur Recruitment told NITV News that the supervisor was stood down while the incident was being internally investigated, but still worked for them. Read more at
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