Queensland may have smashed NSW in the State of Origin for five years running, but NSW may beat us in at least one endeavour: reforming laws around scalping.  The Daily Telegraph has reported that in NSW ticket scalping could be legalised or replaced with special ballots.

Alas, regarding our scalping legislation (which bans scalping), this afternoon’s Brisbane MX newspaper quoted a spokesman for Stadiums Queensland that “there are no plans to review the legislation at this stage.”  This is unfortunate.  As I argued in a previous post on ticket scalping, there would likely be significant economic gains from legalizing scalping.