As Star’s former boss gets grilled in the Federal Court,the casino operator is chasing an 11th-hour reprieve from financial collapse.
The casino operator’s shares may never trade again after the share market operator suspended trading of the Star,which could not file its financial accounts.
The government has introduced various gambling reforms,but harm minimisation advocates say they will not make an impact.
Poker machine reforms were the unifying factor for three new MPs.
A cashless gambling trial was meant to guide public policy on poker machines,but divisions are wider than ever and the government is in a pickle. What went wrong?
Not even the world’s biggest role-playing game,now 50 years old,is immune from the broader cultural debate about balancing inclusivity with history and tradition.
In one council area,more than $2 million a day was poured into poker machines during a three-month period,leaving gambling reform advocates furious.
Crown casino was subjected to strict requirements after it was found to have facilitated money-laundering. Now it wants the same rules applied to everyone.
NSW Labor promised a cashless gaming trial,but it was always doomed to fail. Now it has an even bigger problem.
The Australian Hotels Association sat on the advisory panel for gambling reform – but it has strongly rejected its final recommendations for account-based gaming.