Australia News - Page 34

News Brief: An Adelaide court has heard that millionaire Allan Scott wants his former accountant Dennis Craig Telford suitably punished for stealing $22 million.

International News Brief: An Australian bookmaker has paid tens of thousands of dollars to the Russian mafia to stop them ruining his business.

International News Brief: Counselors have welcomed the Queensland Government's move to ban problem gamblers from venues for up to a year.

International News Brief: The South Australian Opposition is calling for the release of a regional impact statement on poker machine numbers, saying the issue shows the Government is paying lip service to country areas.

International News Brief: The URS Casino Industry Economic Report released by the Australian Casino Association has found that in 2002/03 the casino industry generated AUD$8.6 billion in output.

International News Brief: Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd. executive chairman James Packer is to head the board of their new purchase casino operator Burswood.

International News Brief: An energy company may sue Melbourne's Crown Casino to recover AUD$800,000 gambled away by a high-rolling former manager, a court heard today.

International News Brief: A company secretary who stole more than AUD$22 million from his boss to feed a gambling habit today pleaded guilty to 63 counts of fraud.

International News Brief: When two Australian Federal Police officers knocked on Mark Davies's door in April, the former stockbroker wondered what he had done wrong.

International News Brief: A study has begun on the help available in Canberra for problem gamblers and whether it is appropriate.

International News Brief: Police are sifting through security tapes for clues to a vicious weekend bag-snatching in which a grandmother, 79, was kicked, punched and had her head slammed into a car at the Gold Coast's Jupiters Casino.

International News Brief: An Australian bank employee’s attorney says post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of being the victim of a robbery and violence led his client to steal and gamble away more than $1 million.

International News Brief: The Western Australian Government says poker machines will not be introduced to Burswood Casino, despite its imminent takeover by the Packer family's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited.

International News Brief: The Australian Racing Board adopted a strategy at its meeting on Tuesday to fight an influx of betting exchanges on the Australian racing industry.

International News Brief: Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Limited has moved closer to achieving full control of Perth's Burswood casino.

International News Brief: More than 800 Tasmanian casino workers took part in a campaign of industrial action that returned nine percent wage rises, this week.

International News Brief: New South Wales’ casino watchdog has lost its bid to avert legal action brought by the family of a man who died at Sydney's Star City Casino after he was restrained by bouncers.

International News Brief: The Federal Government says alleged links with Kerry Packer's company Publishing and Broadcasting Limited were not behind its decision to block the Christmas Island casino licence.

News Brief: Christmas Islanders are enraged over Federal Government minister Ian Campbell’s decision to prohibit operations on the remote island.

International News Brief: Key sporting bodies stand to collect a multi-million-dollar annual windfall under plans to demand license fees from bookmakers and betting outlets who gamble on their sports.