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Crown’s casinos and the Bergin report – The Saturday Paper
James Packer’s Crown Casino has been found unfit to hold a licence in NSW, following an 18-month inquiry. The findings call into question Crown casinos around Australia…
It began as the most Sydney of stories.
James Packer, billionaire scion, lunching with Barry OFarrell, then premier of New South Wales. The meeting was brokered by and held in the home of powerful radio shock jock Alan Jones, overlooking Sydney Harbour.
It was February 2012 and the trio had met to discuss Packers vision for the steel and glass behemoth he wanted to build on a harbourfront wasteland at Barangaroo.
Soon, Kerry Packers son would get almost everything he wanted, a circumstance to which…
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