The century-old Globe Hotel has been revived at the hands of a multi-million renovation, as a hub of the town of Barcaldine. Last Thursday the central-west Queensland town, around 600 kilometres inland from Rockhampton, saw the classic two-storey Queenslander hotel reopen as The Globe Visitor Information Centre. The 1910 pub closed a few years ago, […]
Sydney’s Newtown showed off its ability to eat, drink and rock yesterday, with thousands attending the “King Street Crawl” – without a single incident recorded by police. The brain-child of Matt and Dan Rule – the former operators of the beleaguered Annandale Hotel – the precinct-wide party was fundamentally a tribute to Sydney’s floundering live
In a world-first for ‘crowd-funding’ campaigns, the “heart” of a tiny Victorian town will be reborn. A fire destroyed Buchan’s Caves Hotel on 8 April, 2014, leaving the town of just 400 people without its meeting place and best reason for tourists to stop. “Men stood in the streets in their pyjamas and cried,” town
Industry has come out in support of Victoria’s “Homesafe” scheme that promises public transport throughout the night across weekends. Public Transport Minister Jacinta Allan and Police Minister Wade Noonan announced the Homesafe timetables would begin new year’s day, providing train, tram and bus transport on major lines every hour all night across weekends. Train services
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Wandsworth Council has ordered a developer to (re)turn an eponymous pile of rubble into gold. Council for UK’s Battersea conservation area has “roundly rejected” a retrospective building proposal by the developer that bulldozed St Johns’ Hill’s The Alchemist pub last month. The developer will now be required to “[restore] to its original condition” the Victorian
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