KENO GOES THE LOTT FROM TABCORP

Today Australia’s largest lotteries operator has been spun off from parent company Tabcorp, forming the newly ASX-listed The Lottery Corporation, holder of brands The Lott and Keno. Listing 1 June, TLC (ASX:TLC) is the “new driving force” in Australian lottery

THE PREM RISES FROM THE ASHES

Albany’s historic Premier Hotel has literally risen from oblivion, sporting a multi-million-dollar renovation to revive what was destroyed by arson six years ago. Mid-2016 news emerged that the lessee of the pub had been beaten and robbed by intruders, who

BROWNS FIND ANSWER FOR WYE BEACH

Continuing the run of pub sales on Victoria’s famous Great Ocean Road, the Wye Beach Hotel has been sold, for the first time in over 30 years. Considered one of the state’s iconic coastal pubs, on The Road between nearby

BAR BROADWAY HITS THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

The re-stapled freehold going concern of the landmark Bar Broadway, aka Sutherlands Hotel, has come to market for the first time in 20 years. One of only five surviving examples of Sydney CBD hotels built in an interwar Functionalist style,

CAPRICORN SANDS HOTEL DEVELOPMENT ON OFFER

A spectacular beachfront hotel development site has hit the market, in Queensland’s booming Capricorn Coast. The area known as the Capricorn Coast lies roughly halfway between Bundaberg and Mackay, approximately 660 kilometres north of Brisbane, and only 30 minutes from

MEN STABBED OUTSIDE SYDNEY PUB

Two teenagers are in critical condition following surgery for stab wounds sustained outside a Sydney pub on the weekend. A gathering of reportedly up to 300 people were celebrating a 22nd birthday at the Norfolk Hotel, on Cleveland Street, Redfern.

WAUGH SNAPS UP O’HARAS KELSO HOTEL

Ashton Waugh and Co are growing the pot, swooping on the O’Hara-owned Kelso Hotel in NSW landmark Bathurst. The Kelso is a large-format pub on a prominent corner, first established in 1860. It incorporates a classic public bar, gaming room

RYAN JOINS WITH FILIPOVIC FOR REDBANK’S COMMERCIAL

Industry stalwart Patrick Ryan has teamed with the recently unemployed former CUB CEO Peter Filipovic in a new independent pub venture, buying the Commercial Hotel at Redbank. The principal of Ryan’s Hotel has joined with the recently former head of

WORLD FIRST ALCOHOLIC POST-MIX MACHINE

Moon Dog Craft Brewery has made an exciting leap forward in the hospitality industry by creating the world’s first alcoholic post-mix dispensing machine. At Moon Dog World, in Melbourne’s Preston, the Fizzer seltzer is now their biggest selling product, already

MURRAY RIVER LANDMARK ECHUCA HOTEL FOR SALE

The picturesque Echuca Hotel on the Murray River is for sale by long-term owner-operator David Connally, for the first time in two decades. Known by locals as the ‘People’s Hotel’, the award-winning Echuca enjoys double street frontage on main drag