On Monday Orange Local Court fined a man $1300 over his drunken behaviour and failure to leave a local hotel. Mechanic Benjamin Gray was asked by staff to leave the hotel in the early hours of 4 April, but argued with security outside. Passing police on a routine patrol spotted Gray in what they described […]
The AHA NSW has launched a widespread campaign to remind people of the community depth and significance of the Aussie pub. Launched last night, four 30-second TVCs began on State-wide television, followed up this morning by pre-recorded ads and live reads on 2GB (Alan Jones, Ray Hadley and Ben Fordham). Beginning today, 15-second “region-specific” radio
Former footballer now lifelong wheelchair user Neil Sachse is launching ‘Project Discovery’ to raise money for ground-breaking spinal cord treatment. Forty years ago Sachse suffered an injury in just his second professional AFL match, which left him a quadriplegic. After two decades being told his life would never be the same, he decided to start
Independent Pub Group has completed its strategic exit from Queensland, selling the last of its hotels in that State to the up and coming Raw Group. The Commercial Hotel Nambour was the seventh and final asset sell-off for IPG, with the freehold going concern passing to Raw for $3.5 million. The divestment campaign included the
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Running a pub is all about being social; on the floor, behind the bar, on Facebook. Hospitality workers do their RSA, you spend time training your staff and do your business management and accounting courses – but how many pub owners are actually trained to be social online? Mostly none. Possibly because such qualifications have
More reports have surfaced on impressive drops in rates of violence due to cooperation between venues and police. NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) statistics show Sydney North precincts of North Sydney and Mosman experienced only 35 incidents in licensed premises last year (to September), which represents a 48.5 per cent improvement on
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Warrnambool Magistrate’s Court this week handed down sentence to a man who wounded four people in a fight but was too drunk to remember. On November 28 last year Andrew John Zibell reportedly drank a “slab of beer” before going to the Merino Hotel with two women at 4pm. Police were called to a fight
The Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular (GABS) was recently voted one of the top 20 beer festivals in the world*, and has now announced it will hold its first trade event. GABS 2015 will take place in Melbourne 22-24 May, and for the first time, one day in Sydney on 30 May. Friday 22 May will
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As the British pub scene continues to undergo a transition centuries in the making, one “identikit” chain is thriving. Britain boasts roughly three times as many pubs per head of population as Australia, and similarly, the JD Wetherspoons chain operates around three times as many (931 pubs) as Australia’s biggest operator, ALH. Largely responsible for
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After 50 years and more than 50,000 race calls, Australian racing doyen John “Johnny” Tapp will soon retire. The man described as “the voice of Australian racing” announced he would end his career almost fifty years to the day with the season finale of In the Gig on 16 June. After receiving an OAM in
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