Situated two hours south-east of Melbourne and around 20 minutes from both Phillip Island and Inverloch, is the tiny village of Archies Creek, with its trail-blazing hotel. Country pub Archies Creek Hotel is not merely surviving, it is responsible for putting the regional town on the map. Bought six years ago by venue veterans Peter […]
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A new tourist trail for devoted pub goers has been created to regale the wonders of watering holes in the far north-west of New South Wales. Called The Pub Route, it consists of eight different trails, all featuring stops that were originally bars, pubs and stables created for cattle and sheep drovers across Bourke, Cobar,
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Today the hotel industry commemorates the life of John Charles Cullen, who sadly passed away 6 March 2025 and was celebrated as “an old school publican and an industry stalwart”. Born 1 Feb 1930 to parents Millie and Charlie, John maintained he was blessed, declaring “we’re lucky people” and living his life by the Cullen
A friendly clash has been simmering for some time between two Tasmanian pubs, who each lay claim to being Australia’s oldest continually licensed venue. Hobart’s Hope and Anchor and New Norfolk’s Bush Inn have been around since the start of the 1800s, with each firmly sticking by their stance of being Australia’s oldest, and both
In 2019, a Queensland couple began the ultimate pub crawl, aiming to visit every single pub in Australia. Now, five years into their anticipated eight-year journey, Andrew and Ursula Keesey have visited over 2,900 Aussie pubs, averaging around three each day. The last pub visit, at time of writing, was the Dargan Hotel, which the
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The 2024 Blue Mountains Local Citizen of the Year awards, presented last Friday at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, found worthy achievements by locals including the innovative new Hotel Etico. The awards are a chance to recognise and honour efforts made by locals for their contributions to the community. Community members have the opportunity to
A Sydney man has smashed the official world record – set in Sydney last year – for the most pubs visited in 24 hours. David Clarkson, a 69-year-old retired accountant, took the title from Harry Kooros and Jake Loiterton, who set a cracking benchmark of 99 pubs in a day in February 2023, in the
A pack of Newcastle lads upped the ante on the lauded ‘beer mile’ by downing ten beverages at ten pubs during the course of running 42 kilometres, in a beer marathon. Novocastrian Lachlan Earnshaw and his brother Elliott are fond of fitness challenges, and on Christmas Eve 2023 did the celebrated beer mile, where participants
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 mates Tom Auriac and Grant Champion buying the pub in the in the town of
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 two-storey brick pub, built 1928. There has been a hotel on the site since 1888.
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