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Crown Resorts is not too big to fail. It has failed already

Written by Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

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Crown Resorts was very sorry it had done so many wrong things in running its Melbourne casino, the company’s senior counsel, Michael Borsky, last week told Victoria’s Finkelstein royal commission.

But his main point was to argue that Crown should keep running the casino, because cancelling or suspending its...

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