Heavy rains in South Australia last week filled the amazing and transient Lake Eyre and stranded about 50 tourists in the remote and colourful William Creek Hotel. The tiny town of William Creek is home to only 60 people, and the pub. The pub and the town and the outback airline WrightAir are all owned […]
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The owner of Geelong’s Black Hatt pub has rescued the local swimming pool, kick-starting plans to launch up to 50 community swimming pools to teach kids to swim. Kylee Clasper already had ideas of opening a local swim school, and when a patron at the pub told her the pool in nearby Portarlington was shutting
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As the relentless march of technology permeates more and more of daily life, one tech company has found Aussies still think the best place to find love is in the pub. Research by cashless payment app provider Clipp has found that over sixty per cent of people across all age brackets surveyed believe their local
In the true spirit of community, a determined family of patrons have banded together to save their local pub – by buying it. As the weary owners of the almost one-hundred-year-old Bolgart Hotel seek a graceful retirement from the rigours of pub operation, a town faces the loss of its heart and hub. Locals for
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The all too common scenario of a regional pub taken by flames recently saw the end of Pittsworth’s Tattersalls Club Hotel and a short-stay resident inside. Around 2:30am last Thursday, fire alarms sounded a warning for the 12 people inside the circa 1900 two-storey timber structure, but only 11 were outside when fire crews arrived
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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