{"id":114895,"date":"2013-11-15T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=114895"},"modified":"2013-11-19T03:24:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T21:54:01","slug":"james-packers-business-with-a-dodgy-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/james-packers-business-with-a-dodgy-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"James Packer\u2019s Business With A Dodgy Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Michael Pascoe<\/span><\/a> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114897\" style=\"width: 137px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/michael-pascoe_127x127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114897\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114897 \" alt=\" Michael Pascoe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/michael-pascoe_127x127.jpg\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/michael-pascoe_127x127.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/michael-pascoe_127x127-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Pascoe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So how do you go about gaining a casino licence from an increasingly dodgy government? Very carefully, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>No, not New South Wales, but Sri Lanka and the Philippines, countries where James Packer\u2019s Crown either wants to or is building a casino.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=James+Packer&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Packer<\/span><\/a> officially launched his $400 million Sri Lankan ambition overnight on the\u00a0eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting\u00a0with a pitch similar to the story that had the NSW government in his pocket as soon as Barry O\u2019Farrell heard it \u2013 a promise of untold wealth flowing from international tourism. In Sri Lanka, it\u2019s supposed to be millions of rich Indians wanting to fly in to give Crown money, while Sydney has been promised squadrons of Chinese whales. The model is Macau where Chinese gamblers pour across the border, an interesting percentage of them corrupt officials laundering money in some of the city\u2019s many casinos.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\" http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/comment-and-analysis\/james-packers-business-with-a-dodgy-regime-20131115-2xkgw.html#ixzz2kfoZ1yWO\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*Michael Pascoe is a BusinessDay contributing editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":114897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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