HISTORIC PUBS TO PAY ‘AIR TAX’ FOR BALCONIES

Pubs and businesses in Byron Bay region are outraged by an ‘air tax’ expected to be imposed for operations with balconies and awnings over Council property. An innocuous meeting by Byron Shire Council in December 2015 resolved to further previous

OXFORD OXFORD SCHOLAR FAILS TO SURVIVE

Popular Melbourne pub the Oxford Scholar will soon close for good, suffering devastating loss of business while the city builds a tunnel under the building. As reported in May, the Oxford Scholar on Swanston St, located in and owned by

REILLY BUYS THE GOODTIME WEST VILLAGE WHITE COCKATOO

Aligning with the arrival of a new Paech, the Goodtime Hospitality boys have divested their West Village Hotel – aka the White Cockatoo – to inner-west publican prophet Ray Reilly. Forming in mid-2014, Locky Paech and James Bodel’s hotel business

GUARD CONVICTED GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM FOR MAULING PATRON

UPDATE: A Gold Coast hotel security guard has been found guilty of grievous bodily harm, for knocking out and breaking the jaw of a Sydney licensee in February, 2014. [caption id="attachment_5305" align="alignright" width="230"] Dennis Faulkner[/caption] Southport District Court last week

MEN ARRESTED FOR THREE-ON-ONE PUB BASHING

Three men have been arrested and charged regarding a brutal assault in an east Melbourne pub on Saturday night. Victorian Police responded to calls around 8:30pm to a hotel in Doncaster, around 20 kilometres east of the Melbourne CBD. The

COPS CRACK DOWN ON BAD-BOY UK PUB

UK licensing authorities are calling to task a suburban pub they say has become a “focal point for crime and disorder” after too many callouts for them and paramedics. [caption id="attachment_10057" align="alignright" width="269"] Knights Quest pub, Blackheath. Image: WhatPub.com[/caption] The

MARKET SEES GLASSHOUSE HOTEL FGC ON OFFER

Furthering the opportunity in Sydney’s south-east, Bob Tate and partners have listed the striking Glasshouse Hotel in Maroubra. Joining the elegant and historic Botany Bay Hotel in Banksmeadow, further south on the peninsula, the Glasshouse Hotel prides itself as a

BRIGHTON’S MARINE HOTEL SHARPENS YIELDS FURTHER

Investment money keeps pouring into the pub sector, with the Marine Hotel Brighton setting another low yield benchmark in Victoria. The freehold interest of the Marine Hotel was sold early 2016 by automotive entrepreneur Bobby Zagame for $13 million, showing

PHMG RUGBY LUNCH ANOTHER BIG WIN FOR CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Mitchell Waugh’s Public House Management Group has served up another spectacular rugby and philanthropy-filled lunch at the Woollahra Hotel, raising over $200,000 for Sydney Children’s Hospital. 2017 marks the second instalment of the PHMG Rugby Lunch charity event, backed by