A major fire on Wednesday night has destroyed the historic Two Storey Hotel in the outback town of Tibooburra. Tibooburra is the most north-western precinct in the state, almost 1200 kilometres from Sydney, near both the South Australian and Queensland borders. Local firefighters from the town of just 134 people were summoned shortly before midnight, […]
The NSW budget announced yesterday has flagged $100 in hospitality vouchers for every adult in the State in a $500 million bid to help re-start the sector. The budget has earmarked four $25 ‘Out & About vouchers‘, to be spent on dining out and entertainment. They cannot be spent on alcohol, cigarettes or gambling. Two
A massive fire has destroyed the popular Spotted Dog Tavern and adjacent backpackers hostel in Bundaberg. Around 11pm on Monday night a fire broke out at the Spotted Dog, on Bourbong Street, formerly known as the Federal Hotel. The blaze quickly spread to the associated Federal Backpackers structure next door. Around 40 firefighters, coming from stations
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 Hotel in Mitchell Park, in Adelaide’s south, when it is understood a morsel became lodged
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 unnamed hotel, set to overlook the marina. The design, pending DA approval in 2020, takes
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 as Barrow Farm was built in the 12th century. For centuries the Mill Beach Pub
Republished courtesy The Betoota Advocate There are many symbiotic relationships in nature – but none seem stronger than the one forged between two Old City District hospitality staff this week. The sous chef at the fabled Gelded Goanna Inn on Daroo Street said he and a barman in the local’s sportsbar part of the hotel
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 Chinese junket operator Roy Moo to journalists at The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and 60
Authorities are investigating the cause of a partial wall collapse in busy nightclub The Library last weekend, with police suggesting it was lucky no-one was killed. The Library, in Northbridge – Perth’s entertainment district – was hosting an event called Thirsty, offering “strippers, cheeseburgers, whipped cream and champagne” for students celebrating the end of exams.
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This week the Australian hotel industry mourns the loss of an icon of the past half-century, with the passing of NSW and Queensland great, Paul Irvin. Paul Michael Irvin was born in Maroubra on 15 September 1927. His father died when he was just two years of age and he was raised by his mother
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