As for crown, 1. They were a sponsor, which is different to an associated LC, 2. Technically crowns sponsorship was as Crown Resorts, not the actual casino The less money LCs give to the NRL clubs, the more that can go into grassroots and back to the community, noone is saying to 'get rid of them'. At Crown Melbourne, we continue to support a broad range of community activities and charities, based on the belief that we have a responsibility and the opportunity to help those who are in need. This year, we again sponsored many events, contributing our employee’s time and the use of Crown facilities, and donated a number of Crown. Sponsorships play an essential role in Crown Perth’s support of local events, sporting teams, cultural activities and community-based programs. Through these sponsorships we look for mutually beneficial and rewarding partnerships. View Harry Segar’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Harry has 1 job listed on their profile. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Harry’s connections and jobs at similar companies. The most recent investigation, the Sixth Casino Review, occurred in 2018. In light of recent evidence heard in the ongoing Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) inquiry in New South Wales, the government will bring forward the next review to examine Crown’s licence suitability in Victoria.

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Crown Resorts' Annual General Meeting (AGM) showcased the company's disregard for meaningful reform, writes Tim Costello.

THE ANNUAL Crown Resorts AGM last week should have been a moment for admission to shareholders by the Board that they were in trouble and a moment to reassure investors that they had strategies to address a burning platform. Instead, they blamed everyone but themselves.

John Alexander, the CEO and Chair of the Board, blamed the media for being sensationalist, he blamed whistleblowers, he blamed activists like Stephen Mayne and me. And their strategy for the future? None.

Every Board member parrotted as their sole defence the same prepared talking point that Crown is the most regulated company in Australia. Four of the directors were then re-elected using James Packer’s 250 million votes and Mr Packer’s 37% stake was also used to prevent a remuneration report first strike by investors over excessive executive salaries, including another $4.5 million last year for Mr Alexander.

Has there ever been a greater moment of corporate denial and bunkering down like this by an ASX100 company? Not that I can remember.

Scandals, inquiries, scrutiny and denials at tense Crown AGM https://t.co/zKd6a1vwFq

— ABC News (@abcnews) October 24, 2019

Nine Entertainment’s newspapers, led by The Age, along with their flagship 60 minutes program had previously detailed junket partnerships of criminals including ice traffickers and sex traffickers through brothel owners who worked for Crown and had been in trouble with the law for human trafficking. Tom Zhou, the Chinese President’s cousin and who The Age alleged is a criminal fugitive on Interpol lists, was also revealed as a Crown high roller.

And what about Alvin Chau, the CEO of junket operator Suncity who has been banned from entering Australia by Home Affairs but his company still has dealings with Crown.

This was followed by revelations of video footage of money laundering in Crown’s high roller rooms leaked by whistle-blower inspectors at the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR), Victoria’s ineffective gambling regulator. Leaked because of their frustrations that Crown is above the law.

Even just last week there were revelations that Crown high roller Joseph Wong had lost $6 million at Crown between 2010 and 2018. Wong is blacklisted by the UN and Australia because he was the alleged arms dealer for Liberian dictator and war criminal Charles Taylor. Wong is not allowed to step foot in Australia and is named on a UN Security Council travel and financial sanctions list.

Crown Casino Crisis a symptom of the alarming failure of fed & state governance, and weak enforcement & regulatory agencies like AUSTRAC. (Full transcript in Hansard) #CrownAGM#auspol#politaspic.twitter.com/D62fbbuhlQ

— Andrew Wilkie MP (@WilkieMP) October 24, 2019

But he freely came to Australia to add to Crown’s bottom line.

This is the tip of the iceberg as investigative journalist Nick McKenzie and his colleagues at Nine Entertainment have a treasure trove of documents leaked about Crown’s dirty dealings.

Public outrage has forced the hand of governments and now there are four separate inquiries at Federal, Victorian and NSW state levels into Crown. But at the AGM last week, the board bunkered down claiming there was nothing to see here during more than two hours of discussion.

You can read the full 40 page AGM transcript for yourself.

I asked them why not act like the big four banks, which eventually agreed to a call for a Royal Commission to clear the air instead of facing endless piecemeal separate enquiries? I encouraged them to call for a Royal Commission into gambling (with terms of references including Crown).

Australia has 18% of the world’s pokies and we are cursed with the greatest per capita losses of any nation in the world and 30% more than the nation that comes second. When I raised this point at the Crown AGM, I was instantly dismissed with contempt.

Canberra has some of the highest per capita gambling losses in Australia. @seselja_k is right, the govt should be doing a lot more to curb harm: https://t.co/WzVSSwmoDk

— Stephen Mayne (@MayneReport) October 29, 2019

I asked if John Alexander regretted the full page Crown newspaper advertisements sledging Federal Independent MP Andrew Wilkie when he revealed Crown’s tampering with pokies, given that the regulator found these allegations to be true and imposed a record $300,000 fine on Crown.

No, Mr Alexander did not regret that.

How can we take the Crown board’s vehement denials against these new charges seriously, given they still are in denial?

And how’s this for poor optics: the contract for servicing Crown’s pokies is with a company called Amtrak, which is chaired and majority-owned by none other than Jeff Kennett. The former Victorian Liberal Premier was Crown’s chief spruiker in the early years.

His Government allowed Crown to become a downtown casino more than twice the size of the biggest casino in Las Vegas. Remember that Las Vegas is a destination gambling centre in the desert, not a major international city like Melbourne.

This is the story Crown Casino doesn’t want you to see. #60Mins reveals the secret inner workings of Australia’s biggest casino, its ties to Chinese crime bosses and communist party figures, drug syndicates, money laundering and alleged sex trafficking rings. pic.twitter.com/vRyQVGhXoy

— 60 Minutes Australia (@60Mins) July 28, 2019

Shareholder activist and fellow gambling reform campaigner Stephen Mayne honed in with governance questions asking why John Alexander, who has earned $73 million over the past 16 years working for James Packer, was not up for re-election as chairman of the board after his 3-year term finished. Turns out he is using the voting exemption under Australian corporate law given to CEOs, when he also doubles up in the dual role of chairman.

He really should put himself up for election like other executive chairs such as Gerry Harvey and Kerry Stokes.

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These questions were dismissed as within the law and there was no need for reducing the influence of management represented in John Alexander or any need for an independent director to become chair. Neither four enquiries nor exposure and public outrage necessitate any Board consequences at this company. James Packer with a reducing 37% stake gets to appoint four of the 10 directors and have a loyalist and denialist installed as executive chair to lead the so-called independent directors who, based on what I saw at the Crown AGM, make a mockery of the word independent.

One of those independent Directors is Helen Coonan, a former Minister in the Howard Government. I asked if it is not a bad look to have so many ex-politicians at Crown given they set the political architecture that has allowed the gambling explosion in Australia?

Former Labor Senator Mark Arbib, former national Labor secretary Karl Bitar and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ former Chief of Staff Chris Reilly all currently work for Crown and James Packer.

Just a reminder former ALP boss Karl Bitar works for Crown Casino and former Howard govt minister Helen Coonan sits on its board.

— Stephanie Peatling (@srpeatling) October 19, 2017

Ms Connan said she had not been in politics since 2012. So I asked her this question: when she was in government and the Productivity Commission (commissioned by my brother, then Treasurer Peter Costello) discovered that we had 20% of the world’s pokies, John Howard as Prime Minister said he was ashamed of this. Did she share that shame? She did not answer.

Andrew Demetriou responded to my question that it is hard for Crown to claim it is a social leader like the AFL, given that over 70% of Crown’s revenue comes from gambling and a business model based on addiction. But he thought the AFL and Crown were very similar and both entertainment businesses. Take careful note AFL, as you negotiate new sports betting sponsorship that target our kids with an adult product and corrupt the game we love.

My sense is that Crown is in reality still a Packer-controlled private business masquerading as a public company. Why is it allowed to get away with this?

The answer is probably because it is a big taxpayer and it donated $180,000 to the major parties in political donations last year. This is private capture of the State that gives a malevolent meaning to the phrase “a Minister of the Crown”.

Most liveable city's heritage under threat from Crown skyscraper https://t.co/VKw5vm47aG@IndependentAus

— Dave Donovan (@davrosz) March 1, 2017

Tim Costello is chief advocate at The Alliance for Gambling Reform.

This article was originally published by 'Pearls and Irritations' and is republished with permission.

Dutton and corruption are often mentioned in the same sentence these days.
Peter Dutton and the great Australian tourist visa scam https://t.co/wRrBjYdnLI@IndependentAus

— paul burow (@burowpaul) August 3, 2019

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We have a loyal and dedicated audience and as well as produce TV Shows, we also are involved with producing live shows as well from major casino's to major events in showgrounds to even the most intimate settings.

Countless tribute bands have appeared on our show, either in studio and live performance content to up close interviews from all over the world. Apart from our Australian hosts we also have a dedicated host in the N.S.W, UK and now in the USA that can conduct interviews.

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We have had a featured article in 3DOT Magazine in the USA about our show.

We have had radio interviews not only in Australia but also in the UK and USA about the show.

We were invited by the HUNGRY JACKS brand to produce 2 episodes inside their premises which was a first for them.

SILK ROAD Melbourne invited us to produce a MEDIA NIGHT mid-week and it was their most succesful Wednesday event they had with a SOLD OUT show.

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The TRIBUTE Show™ is locally produced in Melbourne. We also have a crew in NSW. We are looking at expanding our local aspect to all Australian states and territories.

We have achieved great ratings on Foxtel's Aurora channel but we want to take the next step and have the show appear on one of the major networks ( 7mate ). Our demographic and content is suited for the FTA market.

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The TRIBUTE Show is broadcast on multiple platforms. First run & premiere episodes are shown on Australia's only major cable channel FOXTEL at a prime time slot at 8:30pm Fridays. We also have multiple repeats during the week at various times which is more airtime for your sponsorship.

If you want to talk to us about sponsorships please email us on the link below, we also can tailor a sponsorship to your needs.

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Degani Northcote is proud to be a part of The TRIBUTE Show LIVE shows as we supported their involvement for a charity event. We gladly supplied merchandise to give away as well. They also came and conducted interviews at our premises which gave us even more airplay. Management

We love the show and wanted to have The TRIBUTE Show film some interviews at our premises and put on a show as well for our customers. It was a great success and brought in more clients to watch the taping and the show. We cant thank them enough and would recommend them to anyone !

Silk Road Melbourne went into partnership to add to our events calender on the hard Wednesday evening market. The TRIBUTE Show events have been our best ever attended nights midweek ! The business generated from these nights cemented more future events. Andy Miko

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