YENDA HOTEL A CONTENDER

After two decades at the wheel, Lance Gilbert has put up his beloved pub in mid-western NSW. Gilbert spent time in Yenda as a youth, his family operating a farm close to town. His mother had been brought up in

THE BRUNNY IS TRULY NO MORE

On what would have been its tenth birthday, Melbourne live music doyen the Brunswick Hotel has announced it will never reopen. In the early hours of a Thursday, 22 March 2018, a car collided with and sheared off a fire

WALKER DOUGLAS AND CALLEN OFFER UP SINGLETON SOVEREIGNTY

The Walker Douglas Group has teamed up with Callen Hotels to offer the freehold going concern of Singleton’s handsome Imperial Hotel.  The ‘Impy’ Singleton overlooks main drag John Street, just off the New England Highway through town, around an hour’s

PRIVATE BUYER SNAPS UP HARBOUR VIEW

The freehold Harbour View Hotel has sold to a private buyer thought to be looking at its real estate prospects in Sydney’s historic The Rocks. A high net worth individual believed to be from the provedore sector has paid close

TWO MEN SENTENCED OVER COWARDLY KILLING

Two men have been jailed for causing the death of a man in a drunken act of cowardice outside a Newman pub. In August 2016, 45-year-old Nathan Haynes was with friends at big regional pub the Newman Hotel, aka The

PUB ACCEPTS $640k TAX DEBT

The proprietors of well-known Brisbane pub Gilhooleys have dropped a legal bid against the ATO disputing its large outstanding tax bill. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was seeking by statutory demand $641,604 over unpaid self-assessed GST and Pay As You

NEW ERA FOR OLD FITZ

Tonight sees curtains up for Jaime Wirth and partners’ reincarnation of Woolloomooloo’s famous Old Fitzroy Hotel, with selected new complementing the polished act.  For the past few years, since selling his Drink n’ Dine portfolio, Wirth has joined with Michael

ARISTOCRAT TAKING AINSWORTH TO COURT

Poker machine giants Aristocrat and Ainsworth are headed to Federal Court in a battle over alleged breaches of intellectual property law. Aristocrat Technologies initiated legal proceedings last week against Ainsworth Game Technology (AGT) for what is sees as strategic theft

PATRON FOILS BANDIT WITH MACHETE

CCTV caught a patron fighting off a machete-wielding bandit in a Gold Coast pub with a stool and a pot plant. Local Andrew Ormsby was enjoying an evening in the Mermaid Beach Tavern around 12:45am Friday when he heard a