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Queen’s Wharf owners consider dumping Star for rival casino operators

Zoe Samios and Anthony Macdonald

Updated Jul 7, 2025 – 7.00pm, first published at 10.47am

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Star Entertainment will lose the right to run its newly opened Queen’s Wharf casino in Brisbane next year with the company’s two business partners already holding discussions with rivals including ASX-listed SkyCity Entertainment and American hospitality giant Delaware North.

Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and Far East Consortium, which each own 25 per cent of the sprawling hotel, casino and entertainment complex, are pushing to have a new operator in place by early next year, according to people briefed on the matter but not authorised to comment publicly.

Zoe Samios covers wagering and the business of sport from the AFR's Sydney newsroom. She was previously the media and telecommunications reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and covered media at The Australian.

Anthony Macdonald is a Chanticleer columnist. He is a former Street Talk co-editor and has 10 years' experience as a business journalist and worked at PwC, auditing and advising financial services companies.