When NRL chief operating officer Nick Weeks was made redundant in September – a victim of Peter V’landys′ $80 million cost-cutting drive – his departure from Rugby League Central was resonantly mourned by veteran commentator Roy Masters. Weeks, who built and ran the sporting code’s integrity function, remained a consultant to incoming NRL chief Andrew Abdo “if only to draw a map where all the bodies are buried”. Masters predicted Weeks would “likely return to the corporate world where his skills would be in demand for any company needing to manage reputational risk”. It was a divine prediction. And what company could need those skills more acutely than Crown Resorts?! Weeks, a former Allens lawyer, has joined the under-siege gaming group as its head of “regulatory response and transition”. One would assume that would include responding to Patricia Bergin’s report for the NSW government’s Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority, then responding to two live royal commissions in Victoria and Western Australia.
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