MASS BRAWLS SYDNEY & MELBOURNE HIGHLIGHT CLUELESS RULE-MAKERS

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

MAGISTRATE IN ICE HOTSPOT GOES TOUGH ON BOOZE

As the spotlight heats up in NSW on the Sydney lockouts and State-wide bottleshop closing times, a border town Victorian Magistrate has publicly questioned local licensing. On 12 April last year two brothers ended a long night of drinking with

DIXON PUB SCENE OF SOCCER HOOLIGAN BRAWL

Inter-city rivalry saw one of Dixon Hospitality’s inner-Melbourne pubs become the scene of a brawl between two groups of soccer fans on Saturday. Victoria Police confirmed they were at the Imperial Hotel, where “There were two groups involved in a