Source quality
Transparency in the index
This page isolates the transparency part of the index. It counts how many of the 30 comparison parameters are published on each house’s own pages, how many rely on secondary or lower-confidence sources, and how many are not published in the material reviewed.
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index / Parameters / Transparency
| House | Official published | Secondary / medium / low | Not published | Main secondary-source fields |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Melbourne | 22 | 3 | 5 | Room counts, opening year and airport distance rely on secondary sources; some policy fields are not published. |
| Crown Perth | 22 | 3 | 5 | Room counts, opening year and city / airport distance include secondary-source material. |
| Crown Sydney | 20 | 4 | 6 | Room count, opening chronology, airport distance and some transport notes use secondary or medium-confidence sources. |
| The Star Gold Coast | 8 | 11 | 11 | Several precinct-wide fields rely on secondary or medium-confidence sources; many policy and access fields are not published. |
| The Star Brisbane | 16 | 4 | 10 | Ballroom capacity is secondary; some address, city and phone fields are medium confidence; several hotel-policy fields are not published. |
| Wrest Point | 20 | 5 | 5 | Room count, some history, airport distance and city-position notes rely on secondary or medium-confidence sources. |
| Country Club Tasmania | 17 | 5 | 8 | Opening year, operator, airport distance, city distance and some entertainment detail rely on secondary or medium-confidence sources. |
| Mindil Beach Casino Resort | 18 | 4 | 8 | Room count, opening year, airport distance and city-position notes rely on secondary or medium-confidence sources. |
| Reef Hotel Casino (Pullman) | 22 | 3 | 5 | Some room-category detail, airport context and casino-floor detail use medium, secondary or low-confidence sources. |
| The Ville Resort-Casino | 19 | 4 | 7 | Room count, opening year, airport distance and Ardo timing rely on secondary or medium-confidence sources. |
What counts as transparent
A parameter is treated as transparent when the venue, its hotel booking page, its regulator, or another official property source publishes the value used in the index. A published official room count, a printed check-in time, a named loyalty programme, or a parking page with conditions can all count. If the venue does not publish the field, the cell is marked not published in the 30-parameter table.
Secondary sources are not ignored, but they are labelled. Wikipedia, tourism listings, press listings and search snippets are separated from venue pages. For example, some room counts and opening years are available only by secondary sources. Those entries can help a reader understand the property, but they do not receive the same source-quality treatment as a venue-published number.
The scoring method is set out in method and weights. Transparency is one of five groups and contributes 15 points to the total. The main ranking still follows the full score, not this page alone. Readers comparing source quality with hotel, leisure, dining and access results can use scores by group.
Patterns across the ten houses
The highest transparency counts appear where the official site publishes hotel facilities, dining lists, parking conditions, hours and loyalty information in one place. Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth and Reef Hotel Casino have many official cells, although Crown Melbourne and Crown Perth still use secondary room-count and opening-year material in the FACTS set.
The Star Gold Coast has the largest reliance on secondary or medium-confidence entries in this review. The FACTS set includes official material for Dorsett Gold Coast, but some precinct-wide items, including room totals, theatre capacity and casino-floor size, rely on secondary or medium-confidence sources. The Star Brisbane publishes more current official material for The Star Grand, parking, the Sky Deck, public transport and event spaces, but some fields remain not published.
Several regional properties publish useful facility information but leave numeric capacity fields blank. Wrest Point prints detailed casino hours and convention capacities. Country Club Tasmania publishes room categories, dining names and gaming hours, but its total room count is not printed on fetched official pages. Mindil Beach Casino Resort publishes facilities, dining names, bars and gaming-machine hours, while its total room count is conflicting across external sources and not printed by the venue.
How to read a blank
A blank is not a negative judgement about a hotel’s operation. It means the value was not found in the published sources available to this index. If a venue does not print a pet policy, an accessibility summary, a convention capacity or a transport stop, the index does not estimate it. The cell remains not published and affects transparency.
Some gaps are deliberate exclusions. Australia bans online casino play under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, and this site covers physical venues only. Casino details are described as property facts, not as a reason to visit. Minimum casino-entry age is 18 across the states and territories, but venue pages vary in how directly they publish that rule.
Changes also matter. Treasury Brisbane closed on 25 August 2024 and is not included as an operating house. The Star Brisbane opened at Queen’s Wharf in 2024 and carries current fields separately. For a venue-by-venue read, start with all ten profiles, then check the source-quality notes in each parameter row.