The alarming increase in assaults in venues, particularly on staff, is evidence of the prevalence of ice in Australia, says AHA SA general manager Ian Horne. Figures out of SA’s Consumer Business Services show pub and club operators in South Australia exercised their right to issue a ban from the premises of up to six […]
Three men have been arrested and charged regarding a brutal assault in an east Melbourne pub on Saturday night. Victorian Police responded to calls around 8:30pm to a hotel in Doncaster, around 20 kilometres east of the Melbourne CBD. The family-friendly venue has been an institution in the area for 150 years. Witnesses report three
Increased awareness of the issue of sexual harassment has given rise to initiatives in licensed venues around the world, aiming to let venues assist the innocent. Several such initiatives have begun in Australia, following the lead of UK and the USA. Last year in Britain, a council began a scheme whereby customers (typically female) could
Fitzroy’s Perseverance Hotel was evacuated in the early hours of Sunday morning, when around 20 patrons were overcome by a “toxic gas” on the dancefloor. Police were already in attendance at Dixon Group’s nightclub Perseverance, responding to a report of a fight within the Hotel, when a number of people began fleeing the dancefloor area,
Two men have died in February and three have been charged, following senseless violence around pubs in Perth and Brisbane. Police and emergency services were called to the carpark of a pub in Ellenbrook, WA, where 37-year-old New Zealand-born father of two Diego Hulton lay unconscious. The incident outside the hotel had taken place around
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Pubs in north Melbourne suburbs had brushes with the city’s underbelly on Tuesday night, with one man shot and another waving a gun at security and patrons. Victorian Police report being called to the corner of Sydney and Mahoneys Roads in Faulkner, where a man had been shot in the carpark of Kmart. Management of
One determined Queensland patron was caught on CCTV using an empty beer keg to break in to a pub so he could get another beer. The drunk man was filmed throwing a keg at a side door of the Howl at the Moon pub in Surfers Paradise at 3:30 am yesterday. Although he broke the
Hotels around the country continue to be the scene of “childish” behaviour at the hands of motorcycle gangs, as they flaunt laws against their existence. Members of the Rebels ‘outlaw motorcycle gang’ (OMCG) recently faced Penrith Local Court over the shocking bashing of two rivals at the Clarendon Tavern in north-west Sydney. The attack was
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A WA man has been jailed for a single punch that caused the death of another man, as the debate on violence involving alcohol continues to broil around the country. At the ripe age of just 24, Matthew Edward Norman Windlass already boasted a criminal record of convictions for assault, possessing a weapon, unlawful wounding,
A massive weekend of violence in Sydney and Melbourne has put a spotlight on the folly of measures to date to address escalating anti-social behaviour. Recent weeks have seen fundamentally peaceful demonstrations in Sydney protesting the draconian ‘lockout’ laws that have all but killed the city’s late-night economy and atmosphere. But Saturday night saw police
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