Elsewhere,
Al Jazeera reports that head of the UK genetic surveillance programme
Sharon Peacock has warned that the B.1.1.7 variant which was first recorded in Kent in September is likely to “sweep the world” and become the most dominant global strain of the virus.
PS: In arts news, the Adelaide Fringe festival has been left scrambling ahead of its February 19 start date,
The Guardian reports, after South Australia shut its border to Melbourne residents.
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(AGENPARL) – MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA), mer 10 febbraio 2021
After months of hearings, characterised by spectacular admissions including threats of violence, the report of the Bergin Inquiry into the probity of Crown Sydney Gaming, a subsidiary of Crown Resorts Limited, has been tabled in the NSW parliament.
Crown Resorts runs the Crown casinos in Melbourne and Perth.
The inquiry found that Crown Sydney Gaming was “not a suitable person” to operate the Sydney casino.
It also found the parent, Crown Resorts Limited, was “not suitable to be a close associate of the licensee”.
The serious corporate failures relate to:
Crown’s operations in China, and the arrests of the employees in October 2016 with “numerous failures to escalate indicators of real risks to the staff”
February 9, 2021
In Australia and the official inquiry looking into the license suitability of casino operator Crown Resorts Limited has reportedly returned with a damning verdict that could well see the firm forced into making sweeping changes to its leadership and the way it is run.
According to a report from The Guardian newspaper, the New South Wales Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority investigation was conducted by former New South Wales Supreme Court Judge Patricia Bergin and found that the Melbourne-headquartered company was currently not fit to hold a gambling license for its Crown Sydney development. This $1.5 billion venue purportedly opened in the harborside Barangaroo district of Australia’s largest city late last year although missing a VIP-facing casino that was due to feature a selection of almost 500 gaming tables.
Switzer Daily
10 February 2021
James
Packer faces a Sydney Carton moment when he has to decide whether he gives
himself the guillotine and chops off his head as the real leader of the listed
company Crown Resorts and its Crown gambling operation.
Right now,
the consensus of company analysts, who try to guess the future of profits of
businesses and then their stock prices, think Crown Resorts (CWN) has a
0.6%
downside with the current share price of $10.15.
And it’s
my contention that if James reads the old Charles Dickens book
A Tale of Two
Cities, he could get some great inspiration from the hero of the piece,