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Now issues with Rugby Victoria:
Rugby Victoria now facing questions over missing financial documents
Rugby Victoria has filed just one annual report to the consumer regulator since it took control of the Melbourne Rebels in 2017 – the same year it admitted the Super Rugby club was bleeding millions, and there was “significant doubt” it could continue operating as a going concern.
The governing body of rugby in Victoria – which owned the debt-riddled Super Rugby franchise until it entered into voluntary administration last month – could not explain why it had failed to submit any annual reports to Consumer Affairs Victoria since 2018, despite being legally required to do so....
The six-year administrative failure was uncovered after this masthead made a request to Consumer Affairs Victoria for Rugby Victoria’s annual reports on Friday. The regulator soon contacted the organisation to chase the missing documents.
Consumer Affairs Victoria has been unable to explain what appears to be a massive governance failure, and declined to respond to detailed questions about how this oversight was possible.
Rugby Victoria president Neil Hay was adamant that all the required annual reports and financial statements had been completed, but could not explain why they had not been submitted to the regulator.
“They’re done every year – so why weren’t they sent? I’ve got as much of an idea as you,” Hay said on Monday.
Hay said an email to Consumer Affairs Victoria containing the missing documents had been drafted, with a plan for it to be sent by Monday evening.
The regulator was approached on Tuesday to confirm whether it had received the documents.