Two men have been charged over fraud offences committed on hotels, with losses totalling more than $150,000. In May 2016, 33-year-old Francesco Donato Giannone went on a gambling spree, visiting three pubs in Mount Gambier. At his recent hearing, the South Australian District Court heard of Giannone’s exploits on the night of 19 May, beginning […]
The Entrance business owner George Habkouk is awaiting trial over the death on New Year’s Day of Haydn Butcher outside a central coast hotel. Wyong Local Court has heard preliminary details of the incident in the early hours of New Year’s Day, involving 49-year-old Habkouk and employees from his pizza business. The group had left
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Victorian police are hunting for three men involved in a unprovoked and pathetic group bashing of another man within a Melbourne pub. CCTV (below) shows four or five men accosting 55-year-old grandfather Tony McDonald on the evening of Sunday, 13 August last year at the Union Hotel in Ascot Vale. McDonald and his brother were
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Sam Arnaout’s expansive Iris Capital has lodged plans for a massive residential and hospitality development in Kings Cross to replace The Bourbon and Empire Hotels and surrounds. Around the group’s 2015 purchase of The Bourbon from Chris Cheung, Arnaout orchestrated acquisition of several adjacent lots, ending at Roslyn Street with the purchase of the Empire
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The team behind the acclaim of The Dolphin has opened a brand new Bondi Beach Public Bar, offering a sophisticated nod to Australian drinking culture of the 1970s and 80s. The massive Pacific development on Bondi’s Campbell Parade, stretching an entire block between Curlewis and Beach Streets, offers high worth residents unobstructed panoramic views of
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Liquor & Gaming NSW has confirmed later trading on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, for both licensed venues and takeaway sales. Due to Christmas and New Year’s Eves falling on a Sunday, special arrangements were decided to give consumers additional time to patronise and make purchases ahead of the festive days. All hotels, clubs,
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This week Diageo – one of the largest and most progressive drinks companies – celebrated two decades since its inception, and the eve of further innovation. The publicly listed company (plc) Diageo was created in 1997 from the merger of Grand Metropolitan plc and Guinness plc. Since then its share price has increased 340 per
An unnamed buyer has secured the blank canvas freehold of Melbourne’s promising East Brunswick Hotel at auction for $4.4 million. The former CUB pub on the corner of Lygon and Albert Streets has seen several incarnations over the years, and recently enjoyed a reputation for live music, respected for its mandate to play up-and-comers. In
Funlab is set to open its eighth instalment of putt-putt pub Holey Moley, in the rapidly gentrifying precinct of Kings Cross. The Holey Moley sensation began in 2016, the first venue opening in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, followed in April this year by the second in Melbourne, offering patrons food and beverages around custom-built mini-golf courses.
After more than a year of debate, the combining of Tabcorp and Tatts Group has been given final approval and shareholders notified. The proposed $11bn merger between the two ASX-listed Australian gaming companies was announced mid-October 2016. The Australian Competition Tribunal (ACT) approved the deal in June this year, but this decision was appealed by
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