The Street Royal Commission

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I was looking up some history into George Freeman and came across this....

Freeman married 24-year old orthoptist Georgina McLoughlin on August 6, 1981. He was named in two further Royal Commissions during the 1980s, the Stewart Royal Commission and Street Royal Commission into corruption within the New South Wales Rugby League.

now the bolded part interested me.

I tried to look up the Street Royal commission and all i found was an interview with a presenter from 4 corners who worked on the story and he definatly did mention the Late Kevin Humphries being implicated.

link: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/4c40/...ws/masters.htm

So would anyone know any more about the Street commission????

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Found some other information:

In 1983, the Australian ABC-TV current affairs programme Four Corners, aired an episode entitled "The Big League". The programme was to have repercussions throughout Australian sport, and in the wider community. Reporter Chris Masters (the brother of league identity Roy Masters) described allegations of corruption within the NSWRL, including suggestions that officials were siphoning funds from particular clubs and international matches while players and spectators endured sub-standard facilities. As a result of the program, a Royal Commission (the Street Royal Commission) was called. It led to the New South Wales chief magistrate Murray Farquhar being jailed, the end of NSWRL president Kevin Humphreys' career and the ABC being sued for libel by NSW State Premier, Neville Wran (who eventually settled out of court). Masters, Four Corners and the commission are widely credited with widespread improvements in the administration of rugby league in Australia.