Gold Coast Media

Probe into Star's Qld operations wraps Star Entertainment must wait a month for the outcome of damning public hearings into the gambling giant's Queensland operations. After three days of testimony in Brisbane, public hearings into Star's suitability to hold a casino licence have concluded. Counsel assisting Jonathan Horton QC told the final day of submissions on Monday the casino operator had committed a raft of questionable operational errors. The inquiry was told that the casino repeatedly allowed banned high rollers to gamble at Queensland venues in breach of its exclusion policies. Star also 'pursued' high rollers to visit its Queensland operations, playing for them to travel by private jet and stay in luxury accommodation for free as banned southern players hit the tables in Queensland. Case studies outlined in the hearing revealed Star allowed patrons banned from casinos in NSW and Victoria, and linked to the Italian mafia, to gamble in its Queensland venues ...