Method
How This Site Is Researched and Checked
Every entry on this register begins with a document rather than an opinion, and that document is checked against at least one further, independent record before a single fact is published here.
Source types, in order of trust
Four kinds of material feed this site, not treated as equally reliable, since a primary licensing record settles what a newspaper report only repeats.
- State gaming-authority licensing records: the decision, date and named licensee held by the issuing regulator.
- Heritage-register listings: the citation text and listing date, fixing significance in the regulator's own words, not a later summary.
- Company and architectural histories: corporate records, annual reports and building histories, used to confirm dates, materials and ownership.
- Contemporaneous press: coverage from the week of an opening or licence decision, used to check tone and reaction, never the sole source for a date.
Where a primary record and a secondary retelling disagree, the primary record is followed, and the disagreement is noted rather than resolved quietly.
A case study: the listing that argued with itself
The Sandy Bay tower entered the heritage register on the strength of its primacy, and the decision was not received quietly, since a good many people questioned whether a gambling house merited protection at all.
That result is the reason Wrest Point exists, since the licence was decided by a public vote under the Reece Labor government, with a margin narrow enough to have gone the other way.
Before the vote, no casino operated legally anywhere in the country, and every licence granted since has followed state by state rather than nationally.
Before repeating a contested claim, this site checks whether the licence record or register citation supports it, whether an independent account corroborates it, and whether the disputed part can be stated as dispute rather than settled fact; a claim failing the first check is dropped, not softened.
Update cadence
Pages are re-checked against their primary sources on a rolling basis, roughly once each quarter, and sooner whenever a state gaming authority or a heritage body issues a new decision touching a building already covered here.
Corrections policy
When a fact turns out to be wrong, the page is corrected and a line is added stating what was wrong and when it was fixed; nothing already published is quietly deleted to hide an earlier error.
Funding and independence
This site carries no operator sponsorship, no affiliate placement and no paid listing of any kind. It is written and maintained by one person, and no casino, developer or industry body has paid for coverage or shaped what is written here.
Corrections, additions and disputes over a date or a source are welcome by email, and this is the only invitation to contact made anywhere on this site.