February 2023
Allens, Gilbert + Tobin hire top silks for casino cases
Top commercial silks John Sheahan, Philip Crutchfield, and Wendy Harris head a cavalcade of legal stars for the AUSTRAC and ASIC cases
- Michael Pelly
July 2022
Ian Silk to spearhead Crown Melbourne’s clean-up job
Former AustralianSuper boss Ian Silk has been appointed as the new chairman of Crown Melbourne.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
March 2022
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Star’s punishment needs to fit the crime
Surely gaming companies must be properly penalised by losing the casino licences they have proved unsuitable to hold.
- The AFR View
November 2021
Macau police arrest junket boss in latest blow to gaming enclave
Alvin Chau, the head of a Macau junket group that has previously partnered with James Packer’s Crown, has been arrested.
- Michael Smith
October 2021
Crown’s road back is paved with doubt
Victoria’s royal commission outlined a swath of recommendations to help Crown Resorts save itself. But experts doubt whether redemption is possible.
- James Thomson
August 2021
No red flags after millions in chips left in Crown high-roller room
Junket guests suddenly left a Crown Perth high-roller room with millions in chips on the tables but casino executive did not think there was anything illegal about it.
- Brad Thompson
Coonan rejects Burswood company had no real power over Perth casino
Crown Resorts executive chairman Helen Coonan has delivered a backhander to prominent businessman John Poynton over his view on ambassadorial board responsibilities.
- Brad Thompson
June 2021
Finkelstein questions Crown’s ability to overhaul culture
Commissioner Ray Finkelstein cast doubt on Crown Resorts’ ability to overhaul its ruthless ‘profit motive’-driven culture by changing ‘a few people at the top’.
- Elouise Fowler
May 2021
Casino regulator sold boat to Crown Resort manager fishing mate
WA’s former chief casino officer told an inquiry about fishing trips and friendships with Crown staff as a money laundering storm erupted in eastern states.
- Brad Thompson
No conflict of interest in fishing friendship, Crown inquiry told
WA’s long-time head of gambling regulation says he saw no conflict of interest in the state’s chief casino officer going fishing with a Crown Resorts manager.
- Brad Thompson
WA gaming regulator says media forced out top casino officer
A royal commission in WA has been told the state’s chief casino officer only stood down because of media attention on his friendship and fishing trips with staff at Crown Perth.
- Brad Thompson
March 2021
- Analysis
- Analysis
Sydney contemplates a Packerless future
Is James Packer really going to walk away from his family’s last major operating business in Australia?
- Neil Chenoweth
February 2021
- Opinion
- Opinion
Cornering the casino money sharks
Crime around casinos is too big for state-based regulators. Dealing with it requires an effort on a national scale.
- Tony Robinson
- Analysis
- Analysis
How Packer wins at Crown
The market is reading Commissioner Patricia Bergin’s scathing report on Crown as the Great Escape. But does James Packer care?
- Neil Chenoweth
The Bergin style: ‘courteous but firm’
For Commissioner Patricia Bergin, the conduct of Crown Casino would have been ‘like a red rag to a bull’.
- Michael Pelly
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Time for unfit Crown to go into rehab
A litany of governance, culture, and risk management failures made Patricia Bergin’s task easy, but her remediation plan leaves the door open for Crown.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Crown Resorts
Crown report exposes ‘power of money’ and lobbying
Former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell and journalists who uncritically backed billionaire James Packer’s Sydney casino dream should feel embarrassed by the Crown inquiry report.
- John Kehoe
October 2020
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Crown's Rob Rankin roasted
Former Crown chairman Robert Rankin looks to be the biggest loser so far from the inquiry into the company's right to keep its casino licence in Sydney.
- Tony Boyd
Crown overlooked 'suspicious' reports: AUSTRAC
The regulator has criticised Crown Resorts for failing to act on "suspicious" transactions its Melbourne casino was aware were linked to shady gaming junket operators.
- John Kehoe and James Thomson
Coonan starts cleanout of embattled Crown board
'I’ve commenced conversation with some directors relating to an orderly process for them to leave the board and to get on some more independent directors,' Crown chairman Helen Coonan says.
- Hannah Wootton and James Thomson