Central West District police are investigating an armed robbery and assault that took place early Saturday morning at an Orange hotel. A male cleaner at the Victoria Hotel in Orange was bailed up by an intruder, reportedly armed with a knife and gun. He was tied up while the bandit ransacked the premises. Police believe […]
Regulators have kick-started the financial year with decisions against two licensed venues, over allowing intoxication, and a minor operating a gaming machine. The NSW District Court last week heard an appeal from the licensee of Bathurst’s Elephant & Castle Hotel against a conviction for multiple offences. A visit by Liquor & Gaming NSW inspectors in
Two men have been jailed for causing the death of a man in a drunken act of cowardice outside a Newman pub. In August 2016, 45-year-old Nathan Haynes was with friends at big regional pub the Newman Hotel, aka The Purple Pub, in the WA town, around 1300 kilometres north of Perth. Oueni Pomana and
The proprietors of well-known Brisbane pub Gilhooleys have dropped a legal bid against the ATO disputing its large outstanding tax bill. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was seeking by statutory demand $641,604 over unpaid self-assessed GST and Pay As You Go withholding liabilities, plus the superannuation guarantee charge. It was also presented that more than
Poker machine giants Aristocrat and Ainsworth are headed to Federal Court in a battle over alleged breaches of intellectual property law. Aristocrat Technologies initiated legal proceedings last week against Ainsworth Game Technology (AGT) for what is sees as strategic theft of proprietary business workings behind its phenomenally successful game Lightning Link. Aristocrat claims AGT has
CCTV caught a patron fighting off a machete-wielding bandit in a Gold Coast pub with a stool and a pot plant. Local Andrew Ormsby was enjoying an evening in the Mermaid Beach Tavern around 12:45am Friday when he heard a scream, and thought someone had won a major jackpot. Approaching the gaming room bar, he
Two men are being hunted and one has been arrested over two stabbing deaths in licensed venue carparks. Around 6pm on Monday night (1 July) an argument between three men took place in the carpark of Porters Plainland Hotel, west of Brisbane. The situation escalated, and 53-year-old Paul Rock sustained multiple stab wounds. Witnesses say
Two nineteen-year-olds have been charged with murder after a 46-year-old man died as a result of injuries sustained outside the Slug ‘n’ Lettuce on Saturday morning. Police were called to the ALH pub in Parafield Gardens, in northern Adelaide, around 12:40am, finding people attempting to help a man with serious head injuries. Paramedics transported him
A Central Coast man could see years in prison after bringing a loaded pistol into a Newcastle late-night hotel. 29-year-old Jake Thomas McDougall pleaded guilty in Newcastle Local Court last week, via CCTV link from prison, to acquiring a prohibited firearm while subject to a prohibition order, using an unauthorised pistol, and intimidation. Last September,
Melbourne police are hunting two suspects who fired shots into a crowd, killing a security guard, at Prahran late-night venue Love Machine. Shortly after 3am Sunday morning as people queued outside the Melbourne nightclub, a stolen black Porsche Cayenne drove down Little Chapel Street, turning onto arterial Malvern Road, stopped and fired at least four
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