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Star casino Sydney

24 hours to fix a casino: Star chases cash to fend off insolvency

The embattled group has again been found to be unsuitable to hold a licence and it also faces a class action by investors over its plummeting share price.

  • Colin Kruger

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It’s raining predators for The Star casino.

The kindest thing to do with Star is to find it a new owner

There will always be jackals milling around a smelly corporate carcass. But none will want to pay top dollar for this one.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Star Sydney has been accused of having poor culture and allowing fraud to continue to occur inside the casino.

The Star Gold Coast boss quits as cracks in casino culture deepen

Pubs billionaire Bruce Mathieson has increased his hold in The Star as an executive revealed Star Sydney’s safer-gambling teams were trained by reading a 15-page booklet.

  • Amelia McGuire
Adam Bell SC, chair of the NSW inquiry into The Star.

Star wars: The dirty fight between the casino and its regulator

It is very difficult to imagine how the current board of Star will be able to mend its relationship with the regulator and navigate the path to restore its licence.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Dan Murphy’s

Dan Murphy’s old boys watch on as new guard tackles ambitious targets

Endeavour chief executive Steve Donohue is looking for $290 million in cost savings by 2026.

  • Colin Kruger
Endeavour chairman Peter Hearl at the AGM in Sydney.

The shareholder meeting that felt like a pub brawl

A showdown between the Endeavour board and the company’s largest shareholder, billionaire activist Bruce Mathieson, had everything but fisticuffs.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Dan Murphy’s operator Endeavour Group has been at war with its largest shareholder, Bruce Mathieson senior, for the past month.

Proxy firms advise against Mathieson’s man for Endeavour

CGI Glass Lewis, ISS and Ownership Matters have told their clients not to put retail veteran Bill Wavish on the board of the gaming and liquor giant.

  • Emma Koehn
Bill Wavish’s bid to join the board will be put to a vote at the annual general meeting.

CGI Glass Lewis advises against Mathieson-backed Endeavour candidate

The proxy advisory firm says the dissident group campaigning for Bill Wavish has not mounted a sufficiently compelling case for a new director.

  • Emma Koehn
Four Qantas directors, including chair Richard Goyder, are headed for the departure lounge, with a show bag full of free flights.

After Qantas’ year of turbulence, directors take off with plenty of perks

The board of Qantas has governed and overseen a company and management that has performed poorly for customers. Yet, some directors will be rewarded with a show bag of free flights when they exit.

  • Anne Hyland
Bruce Mathieson has hit out at the performance of Endeavour’s liquor brands Dan Murphy’s and BWS, arguing Coles Liquor has eroded the company’s market share.

The campaign to court Endeavour’s mum and dad shareholders has begun

The fight for retail shareholders’ votes has started in the explosive Endeavour board stoush.

  • Emma Koehn

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