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The Australian Parliament Sports Club (APSC) has been de-registered as a lobby group, just days after independent Senator David Pocock was booted from the club after questioning its links to the gambling lobby in Senate estimates .

The club’s CEO Andy Turnbull, a businessman who runs a sports event company, also told Crikey that its members — including senators — had been notified on 40 occasions that a betting industry lobby group was a “corporate member” of the club, with that group’s CEO playing soccer with the club on several occasions.

The APSC — which bills itself as a grassroots sports club that sets up friendly games between political staffers, politi

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