Dear Queensland – You Are Paying a Large Six Figure Sum For This – Cup Day Part 5 – Mackay
A Few Questions About the Track That My Dad Learned to Ride On
A few questions. How does it cost $600 000 to remediate a hundred year old red dirt track that my Dad and Ben Currie’s both used to ride work on when they were 12? Why would the contract to remediate a dirt track go to a company called Global Turf Solutions when there isn’t a […]
The Half Million Dollar Rail, the $7 Plus Million Track, 3 Grand a Week For a Stick, a $78 000 Mirror, Some Air Con Somewhere, and Whole Lot More – How Racing Queensland Waste Our Dough
I was looking through the contract disclosure list that Racing Queensland are required by law to publish each year, and found a few contracts of interest. Here are some of them. I will show you some more tomorrow. $7.02 million to Martin Collins Australia to build us another useless synthetic track at Caloundra. Martin Collins […]
Wanna Buy the Brooklyn Bridge?
What you see at the top is a contract to pay the Royal National Association (RNA) almost $120 000 that Racing Queensland signed with the organisation just 23 days prior to the advertised start time of the Royal Queensland Show, aka the Ekka. At the time the contract was being signed the RNA were telling […]
Doesn’t Racing Queensland Sound Like a Happy Place to Work?
Last week we published an article in which we mentioned the extraordinarily high turnover of staff at Racing Queensland. Today a reader has sent us a link to the reviews about working at Racing Queensland published on the job site seek.com.au They might explain a few things. Here is what they say —————————————————- Soul destroying. […]
1 in 5 of Racing Queensland’s Workers are Leaving on a Jet Plane, and Won’t Be Back Again – Why?
Across the nation 7.5% of employees changes jobs this year, about 1 in every 7. At Racing Queensland 17.7% did, about 1 in 5. Why? That is a good question to which I have no ready answer. It can’t be the working conditions, as they are excellent. It can’t be the rigours of office life, […]
Watch This – If You Can See Through Walls
To understand the next story we ask that you first watch this replay of the Clifton Cup yesterday provided by Racing Queensland and its broadcast vision partner On The Bit Pty Ltd. All will be explained in the next story. Well as much as we can find out anyway.
Perkboxes, Weekly Fruit, Free Massage Gyms, On-Site Yoga and Nutritionists, and a Whole Lot More – Is This is a Job or a Leisure Farm Stay?
You wouldn’t mind landing a job at Racing Queensland. It doesn’t appear to be real hard graft does it? And the benefits are terrible. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS RQ seeks to create a work environment and culture that supports employee health and wellbeing, promotes flexible work, and facilitates inclusion, diversity and mutual respect of others. RQ offers […]
Racing Queensland’s $11.5 Million Profit is a Mirage – But Never Fear – The Darkest Night is Always Followed by the Brightest Dawn
On the back of a totally unexpected boom in wagering revenue during lockdown season, Racing Queensland have delivered a super impressive (on paper) $11.5 profit this year, and the whole Deagon office is walking around high-fiving and slapping each other backs. Enjoy it while you can RQ can-can dancers, for the bad times are just […]