Anti-social behaviour

RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE DEMONSTRATE CHANCE

Posted on December 13th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
A spate of unlikely violent incidents highlights the unpredictable nature of random acts by people on people, and the near-impossible ask of controlling for everything. In September, 18-year-old Brody David Marston went to the Currimundi Hotel with his brother, drinking

ICE FLAGGED AS STAFF ASSAULTS DOUBLE

Posted on November 6th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The alarming increase in assaults in venues, particularly on staff, is evidence of the prevalence of ice in Australia, says AHA SA general manager Ian Horne. Figures out of SA’s Consumer Business Services show pub and club operators in South

MEN ARRESTED FOR THREE-ON-ONE PUB BASHING

Posted on June 19th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Three men have been arrested and charged regarding a brutal assault in an east Melbourne pub on Saturday night. Victorian Police responded to calls around 8:30pm to a hotel in Doncaster, around 20 kilometres east of the Melbourne CBD. The

ANTI-SLEAZE PROGRAMS POPPING UP IN PUBS

Posted on May 19th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Increased awareness of the issue of sexual harassment has given rise to initiatives in licensed venues around the world, aiming to let venues assist the innocent. Several such initiatives have begun in Australia, following the lead of UK and the

HOTEL PATRONS EVACUATED AMID ‘TOXIC GAS’

Posted on May 15th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Fitzroy’s Perseverance Hotel was evacuated in the early hours of Sunday morning, when around 20 patrons were overcome by a “toxic gas” on the dancefloor. Police were already in attendance at Dixon Group’s nightclub Perseverance, responding to a report of

PUB VIOLENCE TOLLS DEATH FOR TWO MEN AND END FOR TWO MORE

Posted on February 15th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Two men have died in February and three have been charged, following senseless violence around pubs in Perth and Brisbane. Police and emergency services were called to the carpark of a pub in Ellenbrook, WA, where 37-year-old New Zealand-born father

MELBOURNE PUBS RATTLED BY GUN INCIDENTS

Posted on January 20th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Pubs in north Melbourne suburbs had brushes with the city’s underbelly on Tuesday night, with one man shot and another waving a gun at security and patrons. Victorian Police report being called to the corner of Sydney and Mahoneys Roads

MAN USES TO KEG TO BUST INTO PUB FOR A BEER

Posted on July 29th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
One determined Queensland patron was caught on CCTV using an empty beer keg to break in to a pub so he could get another beer. The drunk man was filmed throwing a keg at a side door of the Howl

BIKIE GANGS RUN AMOK IN PUBS AS THEY FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE

Posted on April 8th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Hotels around the country continue to be the scene of “childish” behaviour at the hands of motorcycle gangs, as they flaunt laws against their existence. Members of the Rebels ‘outlaw motorcycle gang’ (OMCG) recently faced Penrith Local Court over the

ONE PUNCH PATRON COPS FIVE YEARS PRISON

Posted on April 1st, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A WA man has been jailed for a single punch that caused the death of another man, as the debate on violence involving alcohol continues to broil around the country. At the ripe age of just 24, Matthew Edward Norman