Bush Telegraph

MAX RESHAPES ITS PERFORMANCE SOLUTION

Posted on September 25th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Gaming services specialist MAX has released news of its reshaped Performance Solutions model, coming with a video explaining the changes and benefits to venues. Following feedback from industry, the company’s offer has been reworked to reportedly provide more choice and

ICONIC SPOTTED DOG DESTROYED

Posted on July 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

COOPERS SHOUT BEERS TO ‘ROLL ON IN’ TO PUBS

Posted on July 15th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Australian beer doyen Coopers Brewery recently announced what it says will be the first of its initiatives to help pubs on the road to recovery, by shouting consumers 15,000 draught beers with the “Roll On In, Pub’s Open” campaign. The

PUB-GOER ‘NEARLY DIES’ CHOKING ON MEAL

Posted on July 8th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

AVC HELPING OUT HOSPO WORKERS

Posted on April 24th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Australian Venue Company (AVC) has instigated a number of initiatives to support its staff and other hospitality workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. AVC is one of the country’s largest hospitality groups and found itself having to close more than 160

HENDERSON MOVES BIG AUSTRALIAN

Posted on January 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Publican battler Patrick Henderson has sold his rescued Australian to first-time owner and beer veteran Jackson Quinn. The Australian Hotel Ballina stands on a generous block on a prominent main street corner of the Northern Rivers town, proximate to Byron

OSCARS TO BUILD SHELL COVE HOTEL

Posted on December 13th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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

SMALL GOES BIG PICTURE AT COUGHLAN’S BOTANY VIEW

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Balmain buff Justin Small has taken the keys to Paddy Coughlan’s Botany View Hotel as the reincarnated Peninsula pub operator builds again. Small was one of the partners in Balmain Pub Group, with a portfolio of pubs in the inner

800-YEAR-OLD UK PUB FOR SALE FOR A SONG

Posted on November 8th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
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