A man has been arrested and charged over a fire at the Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville on Tuesday that endangered 20 people inside and killed the pub cat, Whiskey. Police and fire services were called to the Lewis Hotels pub in the early hours, evacuating close to two-dozen staff and patrons, and two upstairs […]
A 22-year-old woman has been convicted and sentenced for glassing a 35-year-old work colleague at Langford’s Hotel in Mackay. Kytarna Leyland-Rice, a BHP workforce co-ordinator, hit a glass she was holding into the head of another man in her work group soon after throwing a drink in his face – following racist and sexist comments
A long-time employee of the Calamvale Hotel in Brisbane has been convicted and sentenced over embezzlement of nearly $100k from the business. Simon Te Mahia Phoenix Aramoana, 26, of Marsden, was originally employed as a security guard at the pub. Over time his role was expanded to also include general maintenance jobs. He appeared this
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In vivid contrast to the shuttered venues of NSW and Victoria, the stresses of pandemic life have helped a few too many Queenslanders into court for anti-social behaviour. Enjoying a night out at the Globe Hotel, 20-year-old Bundaberg man Jackson Paulson left with a broken jaw after 30-year-old Gracemere man Aaron Joshua Voisey punched him
Pub frontrunners Sand Hill Road are prominent in a posse of Australian businesses seeking the payment of interruption insurance over COVID-19, with battles already being fought in the High Court. Sand Hill Road (SHR) owns and operates nine pubs in the Melbourne area, and has lodged a $26 million claim against insurers after being forced
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A former venue manager at TSG Geelong has been sentenced over the theft of more than $60k to fund a gambling habit. 36-year-old Adrian Benne worked as a manager at The Sporting Globe in Geelong for several years, until cash discrepancies were discovered to the tune of $64,500, leading to charges being laid. Benne appeared
A controversial case of buyer’s remorse has been settled in the NSW Supreme Court this week, bringing judgement on a dispute over the sale of the Quarryman’s Hotel by Laundy Hotels to the Parras family. More than a year since legal wrangling began, Justice Rowan Darke delivered his verdict, finding the sale contract was not
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured a $3,500 penalty for the former operator of the Farmers Arms Hotel for breaching the Fair Work Act by failing to comply with a Compliance Notice over employee pay. FWO inspectors commenced an investigation into the Hotel in Newry, around 200 kilometres east of Melbourne, in 2019 after receiving
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A manager caught misappropriating over $85k from an ALH pub has received a sympathetic sentence to her latest conviction, due to serious health concerns. The 37-year-old woman [name withheld] worked at ALH’s Wilsonton Hotel in Toowoomba, with duties including banking poker machine takings. Staff at the Hotel realised there was something wrong when the woman
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CCTV footage has emerged of a man driving a 4WD into the front of a Darwin pub, through a group of patrons that had just beaten him outside. The video obtained by 9News shows several people punching, dragging and stomping the head of 38-year-old Dale Talbot outside Darwin’s Six Tanks brew-pub, in the early hours
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