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Update on cash and liquidity

Periodic Reports - Other, Notification of Results/Reporting Date

  • Jan 8, 2025
  • 2 pages

Notification of cessation of securities - SGR

Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)

  • Jan 7, 2025
  • 4 pages

Notification of substantial shareholding - JPMorgan

Security holder details - Other

  • Jan 2, 2025
  • 1 page

Becoming a substantial holder

Becoming a substantial holder

  • Jan 2, 2025
  • 33 pages

Notification of ceasing to be a substantial holder -JPMorgan

Ceasing to be a substantial holder, Security holder details - Other

  • Dec 27, 2024
  • 1 page

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This Month

Star chief executive Steve McCann has already secured first creditor status.

Star has six weeks to find financing as NSW, Queensland rule out help

The company, which operates casinos in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, has been burning through cash faster than the market expected as gamblers stay away.

  • Updated
  • Amelia McGuire and Anthony McDonald

Who made Zuckerberg’s $1.4m watch? Take our quiz

Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

  • Daniel Arbon
Christmas festivities at The Star Brisbane at Queen’s Wharf.

Battling Star Entertainment loses the confidence of its banks

Once a $4 billion casino giant, Star could land in voluntary administration within months as its poor financial results discourage lenders and possible bidders.

  • Anthony Macdonald and Kanika Sood
The Star, a Benetti Vision 145, was moored at Marina Mirage on the Gold Coast amid the dispute with the Poyiadjis family.

Star Entertainment settles fight over superyacht sale

It has agreed to sell the vessel to a wealthy Cypriot businessman, who had sued the casino operator alleging that it tried to back out of an earlier deal.

  • Max Mason
Star Entertainment CEO Steve McCann’s back at the negotiating table.

Cash burn puts Star on its deathbed. Its only hope is a deal

Only a white knight can save the casino operator from becoming Australia’s biggest corporate collapse since Virgin Australia in 2020.

  • Anthony Macdonald
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The Star casino in Sydney.

Star warns of urgent cash crunch, liquidity pain

Embattled casino operator Star Entertainment says it has just $79 million left in cash as it attempts to stay afloat.

  • Zoe Samios

December 2024

The best and worst ASX stocks of 2024

The stocks that did the most damage in 2024 – and the ones that ruled

One fintech darling has more than tripled in the past 12 months, but the same can’t be said for lithium stocks on the front line of the EV slowdown.

  • Joshua Peach and Joanne Tran
Robin Khuda, Julie Coates, Shayne Elliott, Chris Ellison, Richard White,  Mike Sneesby.

The good, the bad and the ugly of corporate Australia in 2024

Big deals, big names, big disasters. From AirTrunk to Woolies to our own Nine Entertainment, here are the biggest moments of the year.

  • James Thomson
MinRes founder Chris Ellison will still be at the company into 2026.

Drumstick Awards: The five biggest corporate stuff-ups of 2024

From miners to retailers to tech giants, corporate Australia put its foot in it again this year.

  • James Thomson
A decision on Star’s gaming licence has been deferred by the new Queensland government.

Queensland defers Star’s licence suspension decision

A decision on suspending Star’s licence has been deferred as the new Queensland government vows to scrutinise troubled gaming operator.

  • James Hall

November 2024

Even with a touch of Steve McCann magic, Star’s rehabilitation could take years.

Star chief executive warns liquidity at ‘critical point’

Steve McCann has asked for patience after revealing an unaudited loss for the start of the financial year.

  • Updated
  • Zoe Samios
Star’s Queens Wharf complex in Brisbane will need more funding to be completed.

Star’s long-suffering lenders are starting to become very impatient

Of note, it comes as potential bidders start to appraise the potential of Star’s individual assets.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Star Casino gets a man on the inside at News Corp

The casino’s former PR man Peter Jenkins has popped up at Sydney’s ‘Daily Telegraph’.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Star’s Sydney casino has been under intense scrutiny since 2022, when a damning report found that the company was unsuitable to hold a licence in the state.

Perpetual sells big line of Star Entertainment at 20¢ a share

The trade was worth $26 million and represented around 4.5 per cent of the company.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

October 2024

Departed Super Retail Group chairman Sally Pitkin really doesn’t want to go.

Super Sally Pitkin retires to spend more time with her lawyers

The ex-Clayton Utz lawyer is making plenty of friends in her old profession.

  • Myriam Robin
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Star Entertainment will keep operating its Sydney casino under the supervision of an independent manger.

Star Entertainment hit with hefty fine, but keeps key Sydney licence

The decision by the NSW gaming regulator comes two months after a report authored by Adam Bell, SC, found the casino group unsuitable to operate.

  • Updated
  • Zoe Samios and Anthony Macdonald
NSW casino regulator Philip Crawford.

All this drama at Star for a slap on the wrist and $15m fine?

The casino group gets one more chance in Sydney, but is far from being out of the woods. It could go broke if it doesn’t secure a big new backer by this time next year.

  • Anthony Macdonald
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Jobless rate holds at 4.1pc; Star’s big fine; Harris’ fiery interview

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Poker machine and pub baron Bruce Mathieson.

Billionaire Bruce Mathieson’s rare Viennese cancer treatment

The pub entrepreneur has taken to a “copper igloo” in Europe to treat an aggressive blood cancer.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Crown Resorts wanted poker machines at its Sydney casino.

Blackstone’s Crown knocked back in NSW pokies request

Sources said the proposal involved buying poker machines that would have otherwise been purchased by the NSW government under a five-year buyback scheme.

  • Zoe Samios

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