Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

SHORT PASSES ON THE REDFERN

Posted on October 8th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Marty Short’s Welcome Hospitality has divested the reinvented Redfern Hotel on the fringe of the Sydney CBD to a growing local group. Previously known as the Courthouse Hotel, it holds a prime city site on the corner of George and

BELLARINE LANDMARK HITS THE MARKET

Posted on October 8th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Landmark of Victoria's picturesque Bellarine Peninsula, the St Leonards Hotel & Motel, is for sale by private investors. St Leonards is on the eastern edge of the Peninsula, east of Geelong and around 1.5 hours’ drive south-west of Melbourne, around

ADGEMIS BANKRUPT AS PUBLIC GOES UNDER

Posted on October 3rd, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Jon Adgemis has surrendered the game, filing for bankruptcy as he is said to owe billions, Deutsche Bank takes control of his last five pubs, and a showdown with the ATO loomed in Federal Court. The former KPMG banker had

PARKVIEW SEES DAWES’ GATEWAY INTO SYDNEY

Posted on October 3rd, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Nathan Dawes’ Gateway Hotel Group has charged into Sydney, snapping up the Parkview Hotel ahead of its scheduled auction date. Image: Australian National University, Noel Butlin Archives Located in Sydney's burgeoning Alexandria corridor just south of the CBD, the hotel

UNIVERSAL GO MOKO FOR EXPANSION WEST

Posted on October 1st, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Universal Hotels has taken another step in its expansion plans with acquisition of the top-performing Moko Hotel in Eastwood, from veteran hotelier Paul Dirou. Opening late 2014 as a modern Korean restaurant with a hotel licence, Moko has evolved into

QUANTACO LOOKS TO GROW WITH NEW CEO

Posted on October 1st, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Hospitality systems and software provider Quantaco is moving into its next phase of growth and development in its technology solutions with the appointment of Mark Brixton as CEO. Coming from a role as chief growth officer at business software developer

GAMING STAFFER AND PATRON ARRESTED OVER ARMED ROBBERY

Posted on September 29th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Police have arrested a female employee and regular patron of the Sydney Junction Hotel over a brazen armed robbery earlier this month that netted tens of thousands of dollars. Around 3.40am, on Friday, 12 September workers at the Sydney Junction

PUB MANAGER CONVICTED OVER SEX CRIMES

Posted on September 29th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

A disgraced former manager of the Roebuck Bay Hotel in WA’s wild northwest has been convicted of a slew of sex crimes after abusing his position of power at the outback pub. 51-year-old Stewart Patrick Burchell, who ran the well-known

SOLOTEL UNLEASHES THE WOODSTOCK

Posted on September 26th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

Following a multi-million-dollar transformation, Solotel is today relaunching the former Carousel Inn as The Woodstock, with a new look and features for the grand dame of Rooty Hill. The family group bought the super-large-format pub, on 1.7-Ha, in 2021 for

THE LARRIKIN OF BOWEN HEADS TO MARKET

Posted on September 26th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

After more than two decades at the helm, Bruce Hedditch cements retirement plans with a sale campaign on the iconic Larrikin Hotel in coastal northern Queensland. Bruce and Halina Hedditch came to the area in 2012 to operate the Larrikin for a