Victoria’s regulator has hit Tabcorp and the Preston Hotel with multiple charges and launched a wider investigation over reports of minors being allowed to gamble. The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) alleges staff at the Preston Hotel allowed a 16-year-old to access electronic betting terminals and place bets on six occasions, between May […]
The operators of a well-known Daylesford hotel are facing court, accused of underpaying nearly 100 staff over a two-year period. Late last week the Fair Work Ombudsman revealed accusations against Louise Maree and Travis Francis Melotte, alleging they owe more than $300k in wages to 97 people who worked for them at the Hotel Frangos and Café Koukla,
Developers who illegally demolished the cherished Punch Bowl Inn of Hurst Green, have been fined and ordered to rebuild the heritage-listed landmark to original plans, from the rubble. Built near the crest of a hillock on Longridge Road, in the county of Hurst Green, Clitheroe, in the UK, the Punch Bowl has been servicing locals
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The legal battle between Laundy Hotels and Colin Parras has finally concluded, seeing the High Court rule that the sale three years ago of the Quarryman’s Hotel should have proceeded. Arthur Laundy and co bought the Quarryman’s in 2011 for around $3.5 million, shortly after selling the nearby Harlequin. In late 2019 Laundy Hotels listed
Two men have avoided jail time after violent incidents against staff and others, spurred by drugs, alcohol and animated affections. Early January 2022, 21-year-old boilermaker William Hayes was socialising with his girlfriend and two other friends at the Huskisson Hotel, in Jervis Bay, from around 2-5 pm. According to facts tendered to court, the group
A magistrate has ruled against a claim of sexual assault by a Queensland mine worker, seeing CCTV of the man grabbing a girl’s bottom at a pub. Martin Beau Hunter Shaw has been employed as a FIFO worker in a coal mine near Mackay. In April 2022, the 30-year-old was out at Brisbane’s Stock
A man who assaulted and threatened to kill a guard and his family at the Town Hall in Newtown last year has been sent away, as the magistrate disputed his claim of alcohol-induced memory loss. 30-year-old Charles Begg of Merrylands appeared in court this week for an incident on 2 December last year at the
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An overzealous bouncer in a Darwin pub has been charged over reckless endangerment, after he choked a patron unconscious and dumped him on the concrete, in front of a crowd of witnesses. The incident reportedly took place in the early hours of Saturday morning, and video (below) taken by onlookers soon made its way onto
A seemingly jilted woman at a Perth bar has allegedly assaulted the manager and used her car to ram the pub, before being arrested after police followed her trail home. Video has emerged (below) of the woman believed to be Jenna Manley using her Mustang to smash into the Monkey Bar in Mandurah, south of
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A hotel owner has faced court over the alleged theft of over $100k from inmates of the remand centre where he also worked, in an attempt to save his business. Brenton Williams pleaded guilty to theft from a prison safe holding money for inmates of Adelaide Remand Centre, and from petty cash. The court heard
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