The Star Entertainment Group
Opinion
Casinos
Bargain basement: Could Star’s Sydney casino be worth only $8 million?
The Sydney casino is worth less than its chief executive Steve McCann’s first-year pay cheque of $10 million, based on the report authored by Barrenjoey’s Matt Ryan.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Latest
$500m wiped from The Star as investors revolt after dismal result
The Star’s long-suffering investors have responded to the group’s $1.7 billion loss by sending the share price to just 25¢.
- by Amelia McGuire
Updated
Earnings season
‘On its knees’: The Star to cut jobs, sell assets following $1.7 billion loss
The ailing casino operator finally delivered its full-year results on Thursday, after snagging a last-ditch $200 million loan from its banks.
- by Amelia McGuire and Matt Dennien
Opinion
Casinos
Star Entertainment begs and borrows its way to survival
It is now so dependent on regulators and lenders that Star’s fortunes are largely outside its control.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Star casino employee charged over alleged betting scam
Two men including a Star employee have been charged over a scheme to rig bets in games at the embattled casino.
- by Jessica McSweeney
Billionaire high-roller who skipped town owing Star casino $43m ordered to repay debts
Singaporean gambling baron Yew Choy Wong signed a blank cheque. But when The Star casino staff tried to cash that cheque for $43m at a National Australia Bank branch on the Gold Coast, it bounced.
- by Courtney Kruk
Star sells Treasury Building to Griffith University for CBD campus
The university, which paid $67.5m for the heritage-listed building, plans to transform it into “a state-of-the-art educational environment” by 2027.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
Updated
Casinos
Hong Kong billionaires tried to become majority holders in The Star but backed off
Chow Tai Fook Enterprises approached the NSW casino regulator about taking a major stake in the casino, but pulled out after learning about probity checks.
- by Harriet Alexander, Amelia McGuire and Matt Dennien
The elusive family and the secrets behind The Star’s new casino owners
The family that took legal action to suppress a report into Star’s suitability to hold a casino licence has a long history of escaping scrutiny.
- by Harriet Alexander
Exclusive
Courts
Star secret: The bombshell casino report we can’t print
A leaked probity report into Star Entertainment’s new casino will stay secret after the company’s partner took legal action to prevent it being published.
- by Harriet Alexander and Amelia McGuire
Editorial
Casinos
NSW government’s rejection of tax relief for Star is right decision
The Minns government has rightly rejected the beleaguered Star Entertainment Group’s appeal to the public purse for rescue funds.
- The Herald's View
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