Paddy Coughlan’s Botany View Hotel is seeing a social media brouhaha over a highly controversial mural painted on the pub the day of the news – and vandalised the same night. Social activist artist Scott Marsh began the large mural depicting former PM Tony Abbott embracing Cardinal George Pell the morning of the same-sex marriage […]
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An employee of the renowned Royal Mail Hotel has died after being stung by multiple bees in the pub’s produce garden. While Australia has the dubious international reputation of crawling with venomous critters, including the world’s most dangerous snake(s) and spider, and the deadliest creature of them all, the box jellyfish, death by any of
Scotland is set to become the first country to introduce a ‘Minimum Unit Price’ (MUP) on all booze, currently being considered in Australia, in an attempt to curb irresponsible drinking and public health detriment. Authorities in Scotland have now cleared legal hurdles slowing progress of the legislation, first mooted in 2012, paving the way for
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The illustrious Awards for Excellence for the AHA WA were held on Monday night, crowning the latest stand-outs in the big State of hospitality. As a State without gaming, Western Australian venues have to work harder than the rest of the country to attract patrons and compete in a shifting and remote environment of leisure-seekers
The Phillips’ are calling time on running pubs and parting with their period-style Blue Mountains Hotel in the NSW highlands, which they’ve owned for 33 years. Historic Lawson is a Blue Mountains town around 90 kilometres due west of the Sydney CBD. It was one of the first towns established on the eastern slope of
Well-known publican Alistair Flower is dancing up a storm in the name of cancer research, hoping to raise awareness in fellow 40-somethings that it could happen to them too. Flower is a career publican with plenty of experience and some awards under his belt, atop running his own successful pub at Port Macquarie and being
Pelathon is testing the waters in Gladstone – hand-balling its newly acquired Queens Hotel as the mining region begins to gather steam again. Jaz Mooney’s Pelathon Management Group purchased both the Queens Hotel and Tandara Hotel in Sarina in one line from Town & Country Group, settling both in the past week. Sarina is just
The Tattersalls Hotel in Narrabri has come to market, as its Central Coast owners increase focus on businesses closer to home. Narrabri is around 450 kilometres due west of Coffs Harbour, about 500 north-west of Sydney. It is a country region that is growing in prospects and employment, as seen in the recent advancements in
UPDATE: The team of Melbourne publicans behind the successful Marquis of Lorne have unveiled their latest project – the Mount Erica Hotel, in Prahran. After the Hotel closed suddenly late last year, along came Will Benjamin, Matt Vero and Callan Hitchens, operators of the popular Marquis at Fitzroy. The Mt Erica marked the third venue
After some speculation, Merivale has confirmed its acquisition of the famed Royal Hotel at Bondi. The Royal is a Bondi Road institution, and part of local folklore. It saw the founding meeting of the historic Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club in 1907, and in 1966 hosted a scene from the kitsch Australian cinema classic
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