Commissioner Patricia Bergin will hand down her findings on Crown's suitability by February next year.
The NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority inquiry also heard an appeal from former Crown director and Macquarie Group executive Ben Brazil to not be tarred with the same brush as the rest of the Crown board,saying he tried to stop its worst failings.
The inquiry on Friday heard further submissions from counsel representing Mr Packer and his private company Consolidated Press Holdings (CPH),which owns 36 per cent of Crown.
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Counsel assisting the inquiry have argued that Mr Packer's"deleterious"influence overCrown is a key reason it is unfit to hold the licence for its new $2.2 billion casino at Barangaroo.
Noel Hutley,SC,said there was no evidence to support the claim that Crown executives were reluctant to share"bad news"with Mr Packer — who was Crown's chairman from 2017 to 2015 and a director from 2017 to 2018 — due to his"forceful personality".
"No one has said that,"Mr Hutley said."It simply can’t be right."
Commissioner Patricia Bergin responded that in many instances there was"quite a deal of bad news,had they reflected on it,and it just wasn't elevated".