jaffa wrote:
"The reason it is illegal is that Racing NSW
says that it would be helping other codes not Racing, also that by phone betting all bookies have a chance not just few who could set up sites."

Hi, I find that a bit hard to swallow.

Surely we're not saying we need phone betting only for bookmakers in order to protect an imaginary bookmaker who would be incapable of getting an internet site up and running with live betting?