Gambling

The property investor and social media influencer will stand trial in an Adelaide court later this year after pleading not guilty to several charges of conducting an unlawful lottery.

A review of the Northern Territory racing industry is being undertaken by a consultancy firm that also represents Australia’s largest gambling company, sparking questions about its integrity.

A court has heard how the mother of a woman, whose dead body was left on a Brisbane apartment verandah for months, was allegedly tricked into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to her alleged killer.

A man accused of murder allegedly impersonated his dead housemate 29-year-old Qiong Yan for financial gain, a court has been told.

Analysis shows Sportsbet's 'live odds' segments lost on four out of five occasions.

The Sportsbet "live odds" segments hosted by former player Nathan Brown was an AFL television broadcast mainstay for years. Why have they suddenly stopped?

Crossbench politicians in the Northern Territory are calling for a ban on gifts from corporate bookmakers to members of the NT’s gambling regulator, after revelations its chair declared he had accepted hospitality from gambling companies.

For years, Australia’s de facto online gambling regulator has been based in the Northern Territory. Advocates say that’s a problem and are urging the next federal government to take action.

Casino firm Star Entertainment pulled back from the brink of collapse thanks to a deal with US giant Bally's and pub billionaire Bruce Mathieson. Now its shares are set to return to trade, after it posted a steeper-than-expected financial fall.

Star and its Chinese partner both did business with the disgraced Suncity junket. It is set to cost one of them a share in Australia's most expensive casino.

Canberra's Hellenic Club loses its bid to refer part of its challenge to a $1.2 million fine, imposed after the death by suicide of a man who was in debt due to problem gambling using its poker machines, to the ACT Supreme Court.

The Queensland government has released a report that upholds the ABC's revelation that a Brisbane casino owner had a "concealed relationship" with a jailed junket boss.

Forty-two dogs were injured and one euthanased at the venue between July and September 2024. Club officials, trainers, and owners are calling for the "unsuitable" two-turn grass track to be converted to sand.

Two years after the Murphy Inquiry handed down its recommendations for gambling reform, nothing has been done. One former addict and gambling advocates want it talked about in the lead-up to the federal election. 

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is being urged to fast-track nation-leading poker machine reform because of the guardrails it will provide problem gamblers, amid backlash from the pokies lobby and the state opposition.

The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has found trainer Tom Smith guilty of improper conduct for striking a horse with a pipe and punching it. 

The state government is being urged to fast-track pokies carded play, used at Crown Casino, to all of Victoria's poker machine venues. 

Bally's chair Soo Kim tells The Business he's yet to hear from Star's boss after making an eleventh-hour bid to control the company.

Against all odds, Star Entertainment has managed to avoid sliding into administration for now. But its near demise poses bigger problems for a glittering world that risks being consigned to a bygone era.

Casino operator Star Entertainment is mulling a bid from US gaming giant Bally's, that would give it at least $250 million in funding, in exchange for a controlling stake in the group.