Marty Short and family have announced sale of controlling interest in their thriving B2B liquor business Shorty’s to Woolworths’ Endeavour Group. Family patriarch Warwick Short began what was the Great Australian Wine Company in 1977, beside popular Crow’s Nest watering hold The Stoned Crow. Offering bulk wine stored in barrels, it serviced businesses and devotees […]
The old girl of Parramatta has lost the battle and will soon be demolished to make way for the light rail. A pub was established on the corner of Parramatta’s Church and Ross Streets in 1813, adjacent to Cobb & Co stables that predate it, now heritage-listed, and what is now an archaeological site. The
A 32-year-old woman has been charged after her child was discovered in a hot car in Melbourne and rushed to hospital in critical condition. On Wednesday onlookers spotted a child in a Suzuki SUV in the carpark of Brook Point Cook Community Club. The owner of the car arrived and realised the state the child
One of Australia’s most famous hotels and icons of the red centre has sold, bringing new outback blood to the heritage-listed Birdsville Hotel. Located a leisurely 1,600 kilometres west of Brisbane and 1,200 north of Adelaide, the western Queensland town of Birdsville would be perhaps the definition of ‘off the beaten track’ were it not
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One of the great late-night venues of Sydney’s inner west will stop the music for the last time this Saturday as the Sly Fox loses its fight to retain 24-hour trading. As reported in November, since 1999 the Sly Fox of Enmore had traded on a 24-hour permit originally acquired on a one-year trial. In
More than two years after being put in the hands of receivers, clarity around future licensing has brought sale of the large-format Tambrey Tavern in north-west WA. Early 2018 both the Tambrey and Karratha Taverns in Karratha returned to market amid renewed confidence in the region, approximately 1,500 kilometres north of Perth. The mining town
One of the Gong’s institutional late-night party venues has closed, ahead of a significant renovation and “change of use”. In the days after Christmas the party-hard Illawarra Hotel posted on social media it would soon be time “to say goodbye” and announced a series of ‘farewell’ parties to end with a bang. The Facebook post
As Australia swelters through one of the worst bushfire seasons in living memory, watering holes across the country step up to shelter and support their flailing communities. Nationally the devastation has surpassed six million hectares, taking at least 23 lives and more than 1,700 homes in NSW, South Australia and Victoria. New South Wales has
Ending more than four decades custodianship, former AHA NSW President John Thorpe has sold the iconic Harbord Beach Hotel to local real estate tycoon and industry newcomer Glenn Piper. Thorpe and partner Trish King took the reins to the landmark pub beside Freshwater Beach in 1978, and have owner-operated it since, with son Sean King
Principals at a pub in Queensland’s Darling Downs have been convicted and fined $11,000 after breaches including allowing a minor to drink and gamble at the venue. An Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) investigation discovered breaches by Big Fish Drink P/L, of the Clifton Arms Hotel, dating back to November 2018. The licensee
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