Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

TAMBREY TRANSACTS AMID NORTH-WEST CLARITY

Posted on January 15th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

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

ILLAWARRA HOTEL’S MYSTERIOUS CLOSURE

Posted on January 15th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

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”

AUSSIE PUBS TOUCHED BY NATIONAL FIRE CRISIS

Posted on January 13th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

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

THORPE PARTS WITH HARBORD BEACH HOTEL

Posted on January 13th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

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

BIG FISH SLAPPED WITH $11k FINE OVER MINOR BREACHES

Posted on January 13th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney

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

MASENS OFFER UP GOOD INTENT

Posted on December 20th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney

After a half-century of original ownership, the Masen family is reluctantly parting with its big suburban hotel of Good Intent in Grafton. In 1957 two Grafton locals, hotelier Reg Hinch and builder Reg Want, built the “Ultra-Modern” Good Intent Hotel

HUNTER LICENSEE HIT FOR BREACHING NEW LICENCE CONDITION

Posted on December 20th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney

The licensee of Broadmeadow’s Premier Hotel has been punished for breach of extended licensing conditions on the first weekend of the venue’s extended trading. In the first half of 2019, three pubs in the Hunter region applied to Liquor &

MATILDA BAY LAUNCHES HEALESVILLE PUB AS SEXTON RETURNS

Posted on December 20th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney

Australian craft beer royalty Matilda Bay will throw open the doors to its new pub-brewery in the Yarra Valley on Boxing Day, led by the returning founder, Phil Sexton. Sexton began Matilda Bay 35 years ago, partnering with Carlton &

GAMING ATTENDANT WALKS FOR STEALING AS A SERVANT

Posted on December 18th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney

A Toowoomba gaming attendant has walked away without a conviction or his job, after chasing his own lost $20 on Keno with over $66,000 of the hotel’s money. On Sunday 6 January 27-year-old Benjamin Naythan Shipp was working a quiet

TEMORA’S SHAMROCK YIELDS SALE

Posted on December 18th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney

After seven decades and three generations, the Leary family has sold its Shamrock Hotel in Temora to another in the convoy of Sydney-based publicans. Built on a 1,242sqm block on the main road through Temora, around 400 kilometres west of