The Tarana Hotel, a regional pub in New South Wales, is currently addressing mental ill-health in a unique and creative way. Throughout July and August, the Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) is hosting free storytelling and songwriting workshops at the pub. Run by Arts OutWest and Abby Smith from regional country/folk/jazz duo Smith and […]
The faithful Greenmount local was part of a record-breaking drive to raise funds for Toowoomba Hospice, participating in this year’s Hang Ya Boss Out To Dry event. Stepping up for the challenge in the somewhat oddly named initiative was the curiously named Get Chopped Hotel, previously the Greenmount, seeing publican Brendon Quirey hoisted skywards. Enthusiasts
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Hotels Have Hearts (HHH) has surpassed $5 million in donations after the gala dinner in Sydney raised a record $850k to help tackle homelessness. Almost 600 guests filled the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel Sydney last week to raise much-needed funds in support of St Vincent de Paul Society’s Housing and Homelessness Services. A
The tenth annual Beyond Bitumen rally recently completed another successful year of fundraising for Beyond Blue. This year’s charity run raised over $500k as participants took the scenic route from Gundagai to Goulburn via Echuca, Griffith and Young. One rally participant was Car Two – a 1992 V8 Ford Fairlane sponsored by the Cullen family’s
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Victorian pubs have reportedly raised over $270k this year for the Good Friday Appeal, through various fundraising activities, including the AHA (Vic) Top Pubs Challenge. The Australian Hotels Association (AHA) Victoria announced the revival of its Top Pubs Challenge in 2024, in collaboration with the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal (GFA). The initiative showcases
Approaching four years since the world turned upside down and the unthinkable happened – the pubs were shut – Jennifer Hale reflects on the lessons learned. * By sharing photographs from an exhibition entitled Resilience, the state library of Western Australia aims to remind viewers how retail and hospitality businesses showed adaptability and perseverance during
A remote Aussie pub 160 kilometres west of Charters Towers in North Queensland has grabbed attention from people all over Australia, thanks to one social media post. Oasis Exchange Hotel publican Priscilla Meli did not expect the huge response to her Facebook post announcing their ‘pay it forward’ donation scheme to help truckies doing it
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Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) has partnered with leading agriculture charity Rural Aid to raise money for Aussie farmers doing it tough. The “Parma for a Farmer” initiative will see $1 from each chicken parmigiana sold throughout February donated toward Rural Aid’s mission, to support farmers and their families by addressing pressing needs. Across Australia’s
A couple of Aussie blokes have joined the legends in the Guinness book of World Records by having drinks at the most pubs in a 24-hour period. Eyeing the Guinness World Records accolade, 26-year-olds Harry Kooros and Jake Loiterton broke the Record with a pub crawl to 99 different venues over the course of 24
Winners of the 2023 Mulletfest, attracting international competition, have been awarded their party-in-the-back prizes after the big event over the weekend. Mulletfest began in 2018 at the Chelmsford Hotel, in Kurri Kurri. It raises money for a cause very close to everyone’s hearts, brain cancer research, care and treatment, through local boy charity The Mark
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