{"id":26977,"date":"2022-02-04T07:47:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T10:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26977"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:36:48","slug":"wa-royal-commission-to-deliver-crown-perth-findings-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wa-royal-commission-to-deliver-crown-perth-findings-next-month","title":{"rendered":"WA Royal Commission to deliver Crown Perth findings next month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Western Australia’s Royal Commission into Crown Perth will share its findings with the government at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Crown Resorts will finally know if it is found suitable is to hold a casino licence for its Perth venue<\/strong>. The Western Australia Royal Commission is due to present its findings to prime minister Mark McGowan and premier Kim Beazley in early March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although McGowan and the state government will have the final decision on the fate of Crown Perth, the final report of the Royal Commission will include\u00a0a review of the Perth casino, its management and the state\u2019s gambling regulatory body<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WA Royal Commission<\/strong> will decide if Crown Resorts is suitable to continue holding a casino gaming licence for Crown Perth and also deliver findings on Western Australia\u2019s regulatory framework for the gambling industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It heard that that Western Australia\u2019s Gaming and Wagering Commission (GWC)\u00a0didn\u2019t investigate allegations of money laundering<\/a>\u00a0against Crown because the company\u2019s former legal boss considered them to be “a media beat-up\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crown Resorts has also faced a Royal Commission in Victoria. In that case, it was found unsuitable to hold a licence for its Crown Melbourne casino<\/a>. <\/strong>However, the operator was allowed to keep its licence under stricter conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New South Wales<\/strong>, meanwhile, found Crown Sydney unsuitable to hold its casino licence for the venue and it only received a provisional liquor licence<\/a> to operate its gastronomy offer at the new venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Western Australia’s Royal Commission into Crown Perth will share its findings with the government at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Western Australia Royal Commission is poised to deliver its findings on Crown Perth's casino license suitability and the state's gambling regulatory framework in early March. This critical report will determine if Crown Resorts can retain its gaming license for the Perth venue, following similar inquiries in Victoria and New South Wales that scrutinized the operator's governance and anti-money laundering controls. The outcome will significantly impact Crown's operational continuity and set precedents for regulatory compliance across the Australian iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Crown Perth, Crown Resorts, Western Australia Royal Commission, Mark McGowan, Kim Beazley, Gaming and Wagering Commission (GWC), Crown Melbourne, Crown Sydney","focusai_location":"Australia, Western Australia, Perth, Victoria, New South Wales, Melbourne, Sydney","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.98), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Crown Perth License Impact","query":"What specific operational and financial conditions are likely to be imposed on Crown Perth if its license is retained, and how will these compare to the conditions set for Crown Melbourne?"},{"label":"WA Regulatory Framework","query":"How will the Western Australia Royal Commission's findings on the Gaming and Wagering Commission's oversight influence future regulatory compliance requirements and governance frameworks for other operators in the state?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[20215,14657],"class_list":["post-26977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-crown-perth","tag-crown-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26995,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26977\/revisions\/26995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}