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The Wrest Point Hotel Casino was Australia's first legal casino, opening in the suburb of Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania, on 10 February 1973. The Wrest Point Riviera Hotel, Designed by Architect Keith Wildman and built by Arthur Drysdale and opened in 5 December 1939, was originally constructed on the site of the current Wrest Point Casino. During World War II the hotel was 'booming' and the hotel was sold to Australia's oldest hotel group, Federal Hotels, in March 1956.

In the 1960s, The Federal Group attempted to secure Australia's first casino license. At the time, Tasmania's natural scenery and beauty were not widely known elsewhere, and as a result the state wasn't attracting many tourists. The company hoped that a casino would be the draw-card that would kick-start Tasmania's tourism industry.

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The development of the casino included the construction of the 17-storey hotel tower, with a revolving restaurant, designed by acclaimed architect Sir Roy Grounds, a landmark that is nationally identified with Hobart, and the 64-metre octagonal tower remains the city's tallest building.

Wrest Point has a number of bars and restaurants including: The BirdCage Bar (Jazz and Cocktail Bar), The Onyx Bar, The Point Revolving Restaurant, The Point Lounge Bar, Pier One Restaurant and Bar, The Coffee Shop (Buffet Restaurant), The Loft Bistro, Riverview Snacks Boardwalk Bar, The casino bar (on the main gaming floor).

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2. After the centre's opening in 1973 (after which it was known as Wrest Point Hotel Casino) the casino provided a catalyst for the nation's casino industry, with 12 additional casinos opening across the country. This included a second Federal Group casino in Tasmania, the Country Club Casino, which opened in Launceston in 1982.
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4. The Wrest Point Hotel Casino was Australia's first legal casino, opening in the suburb of Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania, on 10 February 1973. The Wrest Point Riviera Hotel, Designed by Architect Keith Wildman and built by Arthur Drysdale and opened in 5 December 1939, was originally constructed on the site of the current Wrest Point Casino.

The Wrest Point Hotel Casino is seen by many locally and nationally across Australia as being a more serious gaming venue than the areas other major casino, the Country Club. Indeed, it shares much more in common with the major casinos in larger cities in the country by providing players with a thorough land based gaming experience that incorporates all manner of different casino gambling opportunities.

Wrest Point is definitely the gaming highlight in Tasmania and the overriding quality of the gaming experience together with great entertainment and accommodation, not to mention the historical twist, ensure that players of any level can enjoy a top class land based gaming experience in Australia. In terms of going online, the accessibility of the support team is definitely the main thing to look out for, as players definitely do not need to simply be satisfied with a ‘one size fits all’ solution to their gaming needs.

A 57-year-old woman is alleged to have repeatedly breached coronavirus quarantine rules in Tasmania.

The Examiner reports that police were called to Wrest Point Casino in Hobart on Saturday after staff claimed the woman had left her room to smoke and breached a coronavirus public health law.

It was also alleged the woman was abusive to staff and police warned her to comply with quarantine rules.

Police were again called to Wrest Point on Sunday in relation to the woman and she was charged with two counts of failing to comply with the directions of the Director of Public Health.

She was bailed and returned to her room to continue her quarantine.

Police charge woman accused of leaving quarantine room to smoke https://t.co/iwspe4exA8

— The Examiner (@ExaminerOnline) April 19, 2020

Wrest Point lights up in blue for Tassie hospitality and tourism

The iconic Wrest Point Casino tower has been transformed into a beacon of hope amid mass job losses at the site and elsewhere.

The Mercury reported last month that corporate affairs general manager of the Federal Group, which owns and operates Wrest Point, Daniel Hanna, announced the company would stand down 1500 of its 1900 staff in the wake of the Federal Government’s stage on coronavirus restrictions.

At about 7.30pm on Tuesday, the company lit up Tasmania’s tallest building blue as a sign of solidarity for the state’s entire tourism and hospitality industry.

“Yesterday we faced the darkest day in Federal Group’s history,” the company wrote in a message to its current and former workforce.

“Tonight, our iconic Wrest Point tower will be lit blue as a beacon of hope and solidarity.

“We do this for our team, for the 38,000 Tasmanian tourism and hospitality workers impacted by yesterday’s shut down and for our community.

“We know the worst may still be ahead of us, but we will keep the lights on until the threat of coronavirus has passed and we all arise more connected, more resilient and more committed than ever before.”

In a media statement, Mr Hanna said Federal would also meet with its bank on Tuesday evening about pausing payments for electronic gaming machine lease arrangements, which would immediately be passed on to its now closed pokies venues.

MONA offered Tasmanian casino licence

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Museum of Old and New Art founder and professional gambler David Walsh would be offered a high-roller casino licence under a new Tasmanian Government policy that would prevent the state’s residents from gambling at the proposed luxury venue.

The state’s future gaming policy consultation paper, released late on Tuesday, also shows the state’s north could become home to another non-resident high-roller casino if the Government believes the business case stacks up.

Neither casino would be allowed to operate poker machines.

“In the first instance, the licence for the south will be offered to MONA in line with its 2015 proposal and subject to meeting all necessary probity and financial licence requirements,” the paper states.

Mr Walsh announced plans in 2015 for a 160-room hotel-casino development, which would also include a function centre, restaurant, bar, theatre, some retail outlets, a spa and a bigger library.

Mr Walsh, who has made a fortune out of large-scale horse racing betting, has long opposed poker machines in pubs and clubs, describing them as devices that “use noise to disguise the fact that they are financial Russian roulette.”

“Every outcome feels like a lottery win. But it’s a bullet in disguise,” he wrote ahead of the 2018 state election, adding the worst decision he ever made was to “give up” his studies and “start gambling”.

Under the government’s consultation policy, Mr Walsh will be offered the licence for an up-market venue he proposed for MONA, which will not admit Tasmanians.

In other measures, The Federal Group’s poker machine monopoly would be broken up, to allow pubs and clubs to licence their own electronic machines from 2023 directly, instead of from Federal.

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A tender to monitor those venues’ compliance with gaming legislation would be released, but Federal Group would retain the rights to watch and regulate its pokies network.

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It would also retain the rights as the state’s keno operator.