Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

SHORT TALKS SELLING UP TO LAUNDY

Posted on February 6th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

Fraser Short has inked a deal with partner and pub legend Arthur Laundy for Laundy Hotels to buy out Short’s interest in their jointly owned portfolio of award-winning hotels. The deal is around the partnership venues of Watsons Bay Boutique

LIBERALS GO ALL-IN ON GAMING REFORM

Posted on February 6th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

Claiming extensive consultation with industry, Premier Perrottet has unveiled his election policy to overhaul the operation of poker machines, heralded to finally “put a stop to problem gambling”. The changes are to be implemented should the Liberal government be re-elected

PORT ADMIRAL ADRIFT AGAIN

Posted on February 6th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

The stoic 174-year-old Port Admiral Hotel has closed again – just five years after its triumphant return after being shuttered for more than a decade. Built 1849, it was originally dubbed the Railway Hotel in honour of the horse-drawn train

QUINN LOOKS NORTH TO BEER ARCHIVE

Posted on February 3rd, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

AusHotels has divested its long-held and revolutionary Archive Beer Boutique to an acquisitive Quinn Hotels, as Jackson Quinn heads north. Archive Beer Boutique (ABB) is a multi-level watering hole in Brisbane’s West End that has become renowned as a craft

THINGS TO COME – AT THE STAR HOTEL

Posted on February 3rd, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

Newcastle legend and propagator of riots, the Star Hotel, is up for sale as its caretakers move on. Occupying a corner of Hunter Street in Newcastle West, fronting King Street, the famous pub was built in 1885, and remodelled in

POLICE SEEK PUBLIC HELP IN MULTIPLE PUB CRIMES

Posted on February 3rd, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

Police have appealed for information from the public on several incidents of violence and robbery in pubs in New South Wales and South Australia. Around 1am Wednesday (1 February), a man armed with a machete entered the gaming room of

CROWN HOTEL PLAY UP ON RECEIVER SALE

Posted on February 1st, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

Parramatta’s high-profile Crown Hotel and property have hit the market as receivers take control of the company that bought them from Iris for $50 million. PwC has been appointed as receivers and managers, and today the listing was announced of

CHARTER HALL STILL PUSHING PUB INVESTMENT

Posted on February 1st, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

Charter Hall has demonstrated its continued penchant for ALH pubs, paying $57 million for the Highbury Hotel and Village Tavern in Adelaide. The hotels are centred in the capital’s northern suburbs, Highbury about 14 kilometres north-east of the CBD, the

CLUBS CEO SACKED OVER COMMENTS ON PERROTTET

Posted on February 1st, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

The face and CEO of ClubsNSW, Josh Landis, has been stood down by the board in a sudden reaction to a comment the Association boss made on the Premier’s possible motives for pushing gaming reform. The chain of events began

ANCIENT BRITON MARCHES ON

Posted on January 30th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney

Glebe's Ancient Briton is poised for new life, as the Seeto family relinquish the inner west pub in an appropriately animated January. Known as The AB, the multi-level pub occupies a 481sqm block on the corner of Glebe Point Road