The Supreme Court in South Australia has ordered directors of Bloody Mary Group to pay partners over $380,000 after they pocketed lucrative rebate deals with major brewers. In 2016 business partners Brett Viney and Matthew Mitchell bought the Windmill Hotel for around $1.4 million in a venture with father and son Michael and Nicholas Crouch. […]
A Melbourne pub has become the first to be fined under Victoria’s social distancing rules, working to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The state has begun strict enforcement measures on social distancing, dubbed Operation Sentinel. Police are issuing on-the-spot fines of $1652 for individuals, and $9913 for businesses. This week police entered China Bar
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The Westmeadows Tavern saw squads of heavily-armed tactical police swarm the site in the early hours this morning, as two armed bandits were believed to be inside. Police were called to the ALH pub in northern Melbourne around 5am, receiving reports of an armed robbery in progress. First responders were met outside by a woman
Doctor-publican John Harvey has unleashed a David and Goliath battle against the ATO, which has already seen the closure of his Royal Oak Hotel at Cessnock. John Harvey operates the Hunter Valley Dental Practice, and in 2011 bought the nearby Royal Oak Hotel. The Australian Tax Office (ATO) reportedly allowed Harvey to file returns as
A Drummoyne man has faced court over an unprovoked ‘glassing’ and assault on another patron in a Balmain pub. Court records stated 32-year-old Daniel Boyd engaged two other men in the poker machine room of the Unity Hall Hotel, around 9:30 on 26 July 2019. Boyd approached one of the men, asserting that he knew
A 32-year-old woman has been charged after her child was discovered in a hot car in Melbourne and rushed to hospital in critical condition. On Wednesday onlookers spotted a child in a Suzuki SUV in the carpark of Brook Point Cook Community Club. The owner of the car arrived and realised the state the child
A Toowoomba gaming attendant has walked away without a conviction or his job, after chasing his own lost $20 on Keno with over $66,000 of the hotel’s money. On Sunday 6 January 27-year-old Benjamin Naythan Shipp was working a quiet afternoon 2-6:30 shift at Toowoomba’s Portadown Hotel. The accredited gaming attendant had access to the
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An employee of a Townsville pub has been convicted, again, for crimes relating to a robbery at the hotel she helped arrange. In December 2015 the Boomerang Hotel in Mackay was held up, with bandits getting away with $41,000. 25-year-old Ngawaiti Hoana Rawhiti was one of the employees tied up during the robbery. Appearing in
A man has been charged over the death of a regular patron outside a Victorian pub last week. It was reported that an “altercation” took place out front of the Farmers Arms Hotel, in Creswick, 15 kilometres north of Ballarat, around 2am on the morning of Sunday, 22 November. Police will allege 39-year-old local man
A man that allegedly spiked a woman’s drink at a Newtown pub last Friday has faced court this week on a charge of administer poison, and been released on strict conditional bail. A 27-year-old woman with friends at the Town Hall Hotel returned from the bathroom and drank her drink, shortly before collapsing with apparent
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