Camera Icon Holiday Inn Burswood grand opening. The casino's International Room for high-rolling punters was opened in 1995 and it remains the only closed public space in WA where you can still smoke. It was also the long-time home of the now defunct Hopman Cup but closed in 2013 after the construction of Perth Arena. Over the years the venue hosted some of Perth’s most memorable concerts including Michael Jackson, AC/DC, Kylie Minogue, The Wiggles, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Metallica, Rihanna and the Beach Boys. Camera Icon The Beach Boys at the final concert at the Burswood Dome. Las Vegas buyer eyeing off Crown casinoīy 1988 the entire precinct was known as the Burswood Island Complex with its new stadium the Burswood Dome hosting Mick Jagger.The site's previous history as a rubbish tip and sewage treatment precinct caused substantial subsidence problems and while the Burswood Island Casino was open on time in 1987, it's adjoining hotel was delayed. You didn’t just want the ‘yobbo’ element going in.' Camera Icon Crowds line up outside the new casino. “We wanted to build something that was really quality and the gaming above all reproach.

“The only way to do it was to build a world-class resort,” Mr Dempster told The West Australian in 2015. Mr Dempster was adamant a WA casino had to be built on a level of extraordinary magnitude, including a resort, entertainment and sporting facilities, to cash in on what he saw as a lucrative tourism market from Asia. Premier Brian Burke got the ball rolling in 1984 when he awarded the tender for Perth's first legal casino to Dallas Dempster's Tileska joint venture with Malaysian casino giant Genting. Camera Icon Brian Burke at Burswood Island Casino during its first year. It began life as a rubbish tip but the Burswood peninsula that now houses Crown Perth is the centre of the city's entertainment scene and part of a proposed $10 billion takeover bid.

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