An argument outside a Petersham pub on Monday turned nasty as one of two men involved pulled a knife and wounded the other. Police issued a notification early on Tuesday morning about the incident, which took place soon after 11pm the previous night. Officers from Marrickville station attended and established a crime scene. A 20-year-old […]
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A good Samaritan is in hospital after trying to intervene in an argument between a couple in Hornsby’s Railway Hotel. A 54-year-old man was reported to have been arguing with his girlfriend around 7pm on Wednesday night (16 November) when a friend to the woman, a man aged 30, attempted to break up the dispute.
Trial results of very similar cases of antisocial behaviour in pubs in NSW and Queensland show very different outcomes for perpetrators. A man (who cannot be named for legal reasons) was at a Laidley pub with his wife and children in February last year. When he was overcharged for a beer, he raised a glass
A Geelong pub is facing legal action by a patron for failure of duty of care, for injuries she sustained on the premises three years ago. In October 2013, a woman on the dance floor of Cazbar, the nightclub in the Sphinx Hotel, was picked up and subsequently dropped by another patron. It is unknown
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The backlash is building to the destruction of Carlton’s beloved Corkman Irish Pub, illegally demolished by its developer owners two weeks ago. Stefce Kutlesovski and Raman Shaqiri bought the pub for $4.76 million last year, and reportedly told previous owner Alf King they intended to turn the property into apartments, despite the fact that a
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The Federal Court has today seen the start of a case by a self-confessed former pokies “addict” against manufacturer Aristocrat and Crown Casino, now amended to also challenge RTP. Lead applicant Shonica Guy is being represented pro-bono by prominent Melbourne-based law firm Maurice Blackburn in the case, said to centre on claims of misleading conduct
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Suspicion has turned to scandal following the illegal demolition of the beloved and historic Corkman Irish Pub in Carlton. The pub was purchased for $4.76 million in October 2014 by an unnamed local developer, and when the lease expired shortly after the business closed. Around 6am on 8 October this year a fire was spotted
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A 23-year-old man has been arrested for drawing and waving around a fake gun in Keystone’s Sugarmill Hotel, in Kings Cross. Around 9:30 on Saturday night in the Sugarmill’s Kit & Kaboodle, the man allegedly pulled the replica pistol out of his waistband, pointed it at another patron, then waived it above his head. Inspector
The owner of the historic Premier Hotel gutted by arson in May has been suddenly charged with multiple offenses relating to the alleged fraud. In May news broke that a 125-year-old pub in Albany, Western Australia, was mostly destroyed after two men supposedly beat the owner, stole money and set the building alight with four
Victorian police are investigating circumstances around a three-on-one brawl outside a Melbourne pub that put the one man in hospital with serious head injuries. Around 9:30 last Wednesday night a confrontation between one 42-year-old man and three others resulted in all going outside to settle a dispute. The solo man reportedly punched one of the
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