The Jones family and Oxford Hotel of Rockhampton have announced the passing of beloved father and industry stalwart, Ian Jones. The long-time publican passed away last week, aged 68, following a two-year hard fought battle with cancer. “It’s obviously a very sad time for our family but it’s been really heart warming to receive so […]
Coming out of COVID – by Max Hitchins, aka The Hospitality Doctor The last eighteen months have been tough for most people in hospitality and tourism. Whilst it seems COVID and it cohorts are now in the ‘rear view mirror’ the next 18 months will still be tough. As I watched COVID begin its attack
This week the Laundy family’s hotel dynasty celebrates another milestone and hard yards along the way, with an anniversary event at home base the Twin Willows championing a battling champion, Geoff Robinson. The story of Laundy Hotels begins with Arthur Laundy Sr, who found himself in an orphanage at age six when his parents divorced.
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News has emerged Bruce Mathieson Jr has resigned as managing director of ALH, looking to pursue interests of his own. Father and son team, Bruce Mathieson Senior and Junior, created Australia’s largest portfolio of pubs, under the banner of Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH). In recent years Jr has been the Mathieson in charge of
Furthering the folklore that was The Pub the Whole Pub and Nothing But the Pub, intrepid advocate of the mighty watering hole Colin Whelan has now released the picturesque Drinking in The Rivers. Whelan began his affair with Australia’s wide open spaces at the age of 13, when he hitchhiked from Sydney to Perth and
The owners of the landmark Maree Hotel continue to find themselves trapped in New South Wales, with border closures and bureaucracy preventing their return and threatening the business. Publican of the Maree Hotel, Phil Turner and wife Marilyn left the town in South Australia in June, planning to collect a 34-person tour they were due
Local legend Frank Deshon has saved the pub and people of Hebel from fading off the map by buying every business in town. Hebel is a tiny town in south-west Queensland, on the Castlereagh Highway, just a few kilometres on the Sunshine State side of the border with NSW. It counts around 60 residents across
Defiant Victorian publican Trevor Andrews has reopened his Echuca pub, and is seeking help with the massive fines he got for doing so last week. The Pastoral Hotel in Echuca, in regional Victoria, made news around the country by blatantly opening during a state-wide lockdown. Police had visited previously, warning the proprietor people should not
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Popular Perth local the CY O’Connor Village pub was consumed by a blaze over the weekend, but the owners are vowing to rebuild. Emergency services were called to the CYO in Piara Waters, a suburb of south Perth, around 5:30pm on Saturday, finding a fire well established, a roof partially collapsed and plumes of dark
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,
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