Bush Telegraph

SUSPICIOUS FIRE CAUSES TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Posted on August 2nd, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
A suspicious fire at the Paradise Valley Hotel in the early hours of Sunday morning has forced it to close. Emergency services were summoned to the Clematis pub around 3.30am, with seven units responding, from Clematis, Bayswater, Emerald, Menzies, Narre

BURWOOD INN SAVED FROM BLAZE

Posted on June 21st, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Dozens of firefighters fought to save the historic Burwood Inn of Merewether, as a blaze took hold in the kitchen and spread through the building. Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews bearing more than 40 personnel responded to calls for

FIRE DESTROYS HISTORIC KY WEST HOTEL

Posted on March 24th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Investigators are treating as suspicious a fire that destroyed the historic and beloved Ky West Hotel in northern Victoria. Just before midnight on Monday (20 March), emergency services were summoned, and police and more than a dozen CFA vehicles rushed

I LOVE PUBS: MEL BUTTLE

Posted on March 20th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
This is an open love letter to pubs. By Mel Buttle, comedian A good pub makes you feel both at home and comfortable, but a great pub makes me feel like getting a tattoo. Going out for dinner to a

STONEHENGE STILL STANDING

Posted on January 23rd, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
A Queensland town’s hub pub is fighting on and back, after a huge storm hit the tiny town and crashed nearly half the pub, late last year. A night of drinking and offer of an interest-free loan led to old

KANIVA’S COMMERCIAL TURNS CURIOSITY CENTRAL

Posted on January 20th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
An aviator walked into a bar, bought it, and installed a new lived-in look to accompany the kitsch community of Kaniva. Lurking around 420 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, in a Victorian border town, the Commercial Hotel in Kaniva is a

VALE WARD MATTHEWS, SA SCION

Posted on October 28th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Ward Matthews, a principal of one of South Australia’s most prominent and highly respected pub groups, has passed away suddenly. Remembered as a “kind and lovely” man, Matthews Hospitality Group confirmed his unexpected death this month, asking for privacy at

ANGLERS TAVERN UNDER WATER AS RAIN SOAKS THREE STATES

Posted on October 17th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Heavy rainfall has drenched three states and left thousands flooded, including the Anglers Tavern in Melbourne’s west, fighting water to its second level but vowing to return.  Swathes of NSW, Victoria and Tasmania copped heavy rain late last week, forcing