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The Latest Breaking News from Crown Casino

‘Should be closed after midnight’: experts warn 4am pokies closures in Victoria will do little to stop harm

Proposed mandatory closing times will still allow 361 venues to remain open after 2am, data suggests

The Guardian - AU

Crown Casino's bank cheque practice likely 'resulted in criminal infiltration', gambling watchdog finds

Crown Casino is fined $30 million by Victoria's gambling watchdog for allowing punters to cash bank cheques made out to themselves, exacerbating gambling harm and likely aiding "criminal infiltration by money launderers".

ABC News

Victorian government reveals new gambling rules at Crown Casino including mandatory 15-minute breaks

The Victorian government has revealed new measures to address problem gambling at Melbourne's Crown Casino in the wake of the royal commission into Crown's licence.

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Bookkeeper funnelled $1.5m from employer to gambling

A Melbourne bookkeeper who stole $1.5 million from two employers to fuel a gambling addiction, visiting Crown Casino multiple times daily, has been jailed.

AAP

Crown Casino offers sponsorship to Victorian AFL clubs that have vowed to refuse gambling cash

Disgraced casino operator Crown Resorts is offering sponsorship deals to multiple AFL clubs that could see them abandon a pledge not to accept money from gambling companies.

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Sydney: A Biography is Louis Nowra's love letter to his adopted city

Louis Nowra’s inspired biography of Sydney starts with a surprise visit to the city. He grew up in a housing commission estate in Melbourne. In 1959, while on a trip with his father to Wollongong in a truck to pick up a load of coke (for fireplaces, not drinking), his…

The Conversation

We fact-checked Samantha Ratnam's claim that Victorians have lost $66 billion at the pokies. Here's what we found.

Samantha Ratnam says Victorians have lost $66 billion on the pokies. But that figure does not account for inflation — or the losses that have occurred at Crown Casino.

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With updated taglines, will gambling face the same fate as befell big tobacco?

Restrictions on how cigarettes could be advertised curbed smoking in Australia. Will the same happen to gambling?

Crikey

Key independent calls for broad-based casino royal commission following Star and Crown scandals

A federal member is pushing for a sweeping inquiry into Australia’s casino sector following licence suspensions of Crown and Star.

Crikey

Cancer experts ask Victorian MPs to ban smoking in Crown casino’s high-roller rooms

Crown was exempted from smoking bans more than 15 years ago, but health advocates say the royal commission response is a chance to close the loophole

The Guardian - AU

Victorian government introduces reforms for Crown Melbourne amid calls for pre-commitment rules to apply statewide

New laws will require people who gamble to pre-commit to losses and time spent on poker machines at Melbourne's Crown Casino, as part of reforms following a royal commission, but advocates say the change should apply to all pokie venues.

ABC News

‘Is this right?’ At Crown, this simple question went missing in action

Crown’s operations involved significant risk-taking, yet James Packer — the company’s top executive at the time — was never informed. Why?

Crikey

Crown Casino in Melbourne fined $80 million for illegal China Union Pay scheme

The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission says Crown's scheme was illegal, and the casino "went to some lengths to hide what it was doing".

ABC News

Crown poker machine taxes brought in line with pubs and clubs as Victorian government clamps down in budget

The upcoming Victorian budget will target Melbourne's embattled Crown Casino as a revenue source, raising taxes on its poker machine winnings.

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