The members of an upper north shore club unwittingly shouted the partners of their board directors a free overseas holiday – and then paid fringe benefits tax for the pleasure.
The lure of a trip to Las Vegas on a poker machine manufacturer’s dime prompted the directors of a Sydney club to quietly update their travel policy to allow for their partners to travel with them and personal holidays to be added at members’ expense.
The revelations are contained in a motion to remove the directors of Hornsby RSL from office, which will be submitted by the club’s former chief executive, Mario Machado, at its annual meeting on Sunday. Directors will use the same forum to ask their 34,000 members to endorse the policy, saying the trips are a good use of member funds.
“Having directors and their partners partake in these trips, fully paid for by the club, including trip extensions to destinations that have nothing to do with the purpose of running a registered club, does not offer any benefit to members or the club,” Machado wrote. Gaming machine manufacturers have long offered promotions to club directors and management to encourage them to upgrade their poker machines. The NSW government amended the law in 1993 to ban directors from accepting such trips unless they had an educational purpose, after which there was an explosion in the number of “study trips”..
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