Trade Restriction

CALLINAN REVIEW: POLITICAL PAWN PLAYED AND WON

Posted on September 14th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
The much-anticipated Callinan Review tome into Sydney’s punitive licensing laws has finally arrived after six months, producing the required officially unquestionable grounds upon which to do nothing. Over 1800 people and businesses made complex submissions to the process, intellectual debates

PUBLICAN ‘WINS’ APPEAL WITH 5-YEAR BAN ON LICENCE

Posted on September 9th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
The live-in publican at the Albion Hotel in south-western NSW has lost his licence for five years on appeal for allowing a drunken sex romp in his beer garden. [caption id="attachment_7184" align="alignright" width="226"] Allan Francis Ogilvie[/caption] Allan Francis Ogilvie was

SUPREME COURT OPENS DOOR FOR SOME LOCKOUT-BLIGHTED VENUES

Posted on August 29th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Last Thursday the Supreme Court handed down the first good news in years for Sydney’s ‘locked out’ venues, but there’s no cause for celebration yet. Justice Natalie Adams was called to adjudicate on the case filed by the Coronation Hotel,

NSW PREMIER GRANT OPENS DOOR TO LOCKOUT LAW CHANGE

Posted on July 25th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Holding the NSW top job for a week, acting Premier Troy Grant has opened the door for reform to Sydney’s lockout and the State’s “unjustified” 10pm bottle shop closure laws. The review by former High Court judge Ian Callinan into

CALLINAN LOCKOUT REVIEW HEARS OF ‘POOR POLICY’

Posted on April 18th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
The independent review into the controversial trade restrictions in Sydney and across NSW prompted a swath of submissions including the AHA’s call to drop the “poor policy” in favour of evidence-based policies. The Hon. Ian Callinan AC QC was appointed

VENUES COP ‘ATTITUDE TEST’ FROM LICENSING: SOLICITOR

Posted on February 24th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
As licensing regulations and their enforcement face the spotlight in NSW, the front line of the defence speaks of wasted resources and an “attitude test” applied to publicans. Speaking with PubTIC, specialist lawyer to the hospitality industry, David Sylvester of

QUEENSLAND LOCKOUT BILL SEES MPs SACRIFICE HOSPITALITY FOR REGIONAL JOBS

Posted on February 22nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Queensland’s minority government has rammed through its lockout agenda, with the Katter Party trading hospitality jobs throughout the State for its rural constituents. The day before Annastacia Palaszczuk’s minority government successfully introduced its Alcohol Fuelled Violence Amendment Bill to Queensland

CASINO CAPERS – WHERE THE BOUNDARIES END

Posted on February 19th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
As NSW’ northern neighbour slips into lockout purgatory, more voices emerge to question the role of casinos in the changing landscape. Further to the discussion in PubTIC Magazine’s latest edition, the exclusion of casinos from the lockout noose is poorly

LOCKOUTS ARE NO SOLUTION, JUST CROWD CONTROL: FOUNDATION

Posted on February 15th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
In the countdown to new legislation being introduced to Parliament, the Just Let It Go Foundation is pleading for real measures against violence, not another political circus. “The lockout is not a means to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence … it is