Bush Telegraph

PUB-GOER ‘NEARLY DIES’ CHOKING ON MEAL

Posted on July 8th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
News has emerged that a woman nearly choked to death on a fragment from a meal in an Adelaide pub, but was saved by prompt action. Local mother Lisa Heaven was recently eating beef ribs in the Hurley Group’s Marion

AVC HELPING OUT HOSPO WORKERS

Posted on April 24th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Australian Venue Company (AVC) has instigated a number of initiatives to support its staff and other hospitality workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. AVC is one of the country’s largest hospitality groups and found itself having to close more than 160

HENDERSON MOVES BIG AUSTRALIAN

Posted on January 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Publican battler Patrick Henderson has sold his rescued Australian to first-time owner and beer veteran Jackson Quinn. The Australian Hotel Ballina stands on a generous block on a prominent main street corner of the Northern Rivers town, proximate to Byron

OSCARS TO BUILD SHELL COVE HOTEL

Posted on December 13th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The Gravanis brothers’ Oscars Hotels has won the deal to construct a new mixed-use hotel at Frasers Property’s multi-billion-dollar Shell Cove development. This week Shellharbour City Council and Frasers announced Oscars had been granted the right to the new as-yet

SMALL GOES BIG PICTURE AT COUGHLAN’S BOTANY VIEW

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Balmain buff Justin Small has taken the keys to Paddy Coughlan’s Botany View Hotel as the reincarnated Peninsula pub operator builds again. Small was one of the partners in Balmain Pub Group, with a portfolio of pubs in the inner

800-YEAR-OLD UK PUB FOR SALE FOR A SONG

Posted on November 8th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The once-thriving now lamented Mill Beach pub in Essex, UK, has been mysteriously put to market by its mystery owner for a token £1. The building found on the shores of the man-made lake on what used to be known

STING FINDS DRUG POSITIVES IN 14 SNOWY VENUES

Posted on August 5th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
A covert Newscorp investigation has named 14 licensed venues in Thredbo and Jindabyne as proving positive for illicit drugs over the weekend. The Daily Telegraph reports conducting its own swabbing and testing of cisterns and paper dispensers in the toilets

VALE ‘HOLLYWOOD’ DORIS GODDARD

Posted on July 31st, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The hotel industry mourns the loss of one of Sydney’s legends of hospitality and the big screen, with the passing of Doris Goddard at age 89. Born in Sydney, Goddard first rose to fame in the late 50s courtesy of

CROWN LINKS WITH ASIAN CRIME GANGS REVEALED

Posted on July 29th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
There is renewed focus on casino regulation as Crown is accused of systemic breaches around money laundering and impropriety, and a report finds rising rates of alcohol-related violence. In April this year a Victorian judge released a 2013 interview of