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Former Crown director claims chairwoman acted inappropriately over his position We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Dumped Crown Resorts director John Poynton claims its chairwoman acted in an ‘inappropriate’ manner as she and the New South Wales casino regulator piled on pressure for him to resign in the wake of the Bergin inquiry which found the company had facilitated money laundering. A submission by Mr Poynton to the current Perth Casino Royal Commission, which was released on Wednesday night following h...

‘Nothing short of complete, holistic, bottom up and down reform is required’: Verdict in on Crown royal commission ‘Nothing short of complete, holistic, bottom up and down reform is required’: Verdict in on Crown royal commission Share The fate of Crown Melbourne’s operating licence and two key stakeholders hangs in the balance after closing submissions were put forward by counsel assisting. The Royal Commission into the Casino Operator and Licence has wrapped up, with counsel assisting the commission putting forward the closing submission on whether Crown Melbourne is suitable to ...

(Image: Gorkie/Private Media) When we learnt, via the Crown royal commission, that former Daniel Andrews adviser Chris Reilly had ordered the company's head of corporate affairs to threaten the Victorian gambling regulator with going over their head to the minister, we were given a glimpse of "old Crown", as it's now termed. The Crown that treated regulation as a voluntary exercise and the regulator as a minor inconvenience, and that wielded its political connections to prevent any impediments to its profit-making. "Old Crown" is a thing of the past, the company, led by chair Helen Coonan, no...

Crown admits tax rort, but still not ‘candid’ with government Save Share Crown Resorts has admitted to the Victorian government that it evaded the state’s casino tax for almost 10 years, but the casino giant only confessed to underpaying $8 million despite some legal advice indicating the amount could be much higher. Giving evidence to the Victorian royal commission on Tuesday, Crown’s new chief executive, Steve McCann, said he wrote to the state government admitting to the illegal underpayment last week, but denied he included an estimate in the bottom range to secure a b...

Jamie Searle15:23, Jun 29 2021 Jamie Searle/Stuff Republic of Korea ambassador Sang-jin Lee with three of Southland's Korean War veterans, Jim Gibson, left, Siepird Newton and Ken Barton, far right, in Invercargill on Monday. Three Southland Korean War veterans were honoured with memorial plaques and peace medals by the Republic of Korea’s ambassador to New Zealand. Ambassador to New Zealand, Sang-jin Lee, met with three Southland veterans who were part of the United Nations force during the war (1950-53). “New Zealand was one of the first countries to respond to the United Nation’s c...