Fraser Short has inked a deal with partner and pub legend Arthur Laundy for Laundy Hotels to buy out Short’s interest in their jointly owned portfolio of award-winning hotels. The deal is around the partnership venues of Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel, Park House Mona Vale, Northies at Cronulla, Lennox Head Hotel, Illawong Hotel and The […]
Claiming extensive consultation with industry, Premier Perrottet has unveiled his election policy to overhaul the operation of poker machines, heralded to finally “put a stop to problem gambling”. The changes are to be implemented should the Liberal government be re-elected in NSW, after the Premier kick-started gaming reform as an election issue last year. This
The stoic 174-year-old Port Admiral Hotel has closed again – just five years after its triumphant return after being shuttered for more than a decade. Built 1849, it was originally dubbed the Railway Hotel in honour of the horse-drawn train line that ran to the pub. The pride of Port Adelaide took its current name
AusHotels has divested its long-held and revolutionary Archive Beer Boutique to an acquisitive Quinn Hotels, as Jackson Quinn heads north. Archive Beer Boutique (ABB) is a multi-level watering hole in Brisbane’s West End that has become renowned as a craft beer pioneer. It incorporates a main food and beverage offering, and the function-based Loft Bar
Newcastle legend and propagator of riots, the Star Hotel, is up for sale as its caretakers move on. Occupying a corner of Hunter Street in Newcastle West, fronting King Street, the famous pub was built in 1885, and remodelled in 1925 by Tooth & Co. Today’s iteration offers a restaurant and bar, commercial kitchen, and
Police have appealed for information from the public on several incidents of violence and robbery in pubs in New South Wales and South Australia. Around 1am Wednesday (1 February), a man armed with a machete entered the gaming room of the hotel on Gowrie Drive at Whyalla, around four hours north-east of Adelaide. He reportedly
Parramatta’s high-profile Crown Hotel and property have hit the market as receivers take control of the company that bought them from Iris for $50 million. PwC has been appointed as receivers and managers, and today the listing was announced of the Crown Hotel Parramatta, at 295 Church Street Parramatta, and a vacant three-level building at
Charter Hall has demonstrated its continued penchant for ALH pubs, paying $57 million for the Highbury Hotel and Village Tavern in Adelaide. The hotels are centred in the capital’s northern suburbs, Highbury about 14 kilometres north-east of the CBD, the Village around 20 kilometres. Highbury counts a sports bar, bistro, gaming with 40 machines, function
The face and CEO of ClubsNSW, Josh Landis, has been stood down by the board in a sudden reaction to a comment the Association boss made on the Premier’s possible motives for pushing gaming reform. The chain of events began on Monday, when ClubsNSW announced its new gaming code of practice, as its solution in
Glebe’s Ancient Briton is poised for new life, as the Seeto family relinquish the inner west pub in an appropriately animated January. Known as The AB, the multi-level pub occupies a 481sqm block on the corner of Glebe Point Road and Bridge Road, making it perhaps the precinct’s most prominent watering hole. For nearly 25
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