Zoe Samios

1 week ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

The country’s two major casino operators have asked the NSW government to delay the planned restriction of cash use on their gaming floors as they struggle financially from the absence of big-spending gamblers. Customers at Star Entertainment’s Sydney flagship and Crown Resorts’ Barangaroo casino can gamble up to $5000 in cash every day under existing state laws. That figure is meant to fall to a $1000 limit in August. Loading... Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.

1 week ago | afr.com | Sam Buckingham-Jones |Zoe Samios

Substantial areas of South Australia and NSW could lose free-to-air coverage of the AFL, Australian cricket Tests and the Big Bash League after regional network WIN announced it would stop broadcasting Channel Seven there from July 1. The Riverland and Mount Gambier regions east and south-east of Adelaide and the area around the NSW town of Griffith will lose the signal for channels Seven, 7mate and 7two from next month after WIN said Seven had refused to renew a commercial agreement. Loading...

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Patrick Durkin |Zoe Samios

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementIt wasn’t until the final siren blew at the MCG last Saturday night that AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon made Sydney Swans boss Tom Harley the offer he hoped would pull the sport out of its self-inflicted crisis. The Swans had just put an end to a woeful couple of weeks on the field, thumping Richmond by 44 points. In the moments after, Dillon would ask Harley to become his chief operating officer.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

A major Australian poker machine manufacturer has kept its shareholders in the dark about an offshore criminal investigation into its chief executive despite its board knowing about the matter for four years. Harald Neumann, the chief executive of Ainsworth Game Technology since 2021, has been under investigation in Austria since 2019 over a range of allegations related to his time leading a family-owned gaming firm known as Novomatic. He denies any wrongdoing. Loading...

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios

The NRL’s South Sydney Rabbitohs claims its home ground in the city’s west lacks atmosphere and hurts its ability to make money, in a letter to the NSW government proposing a move to inner-city Allianz Stadium. The Rabbitohs play nine matches per season at Accor Stadium under a contract that runs until the end of the decade, but want to have their home ground moved to the newly built stadium at Moore Park in the eastern suburbs. Loading... Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.