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
Richmond music mecca The Corner is back in court over use of the ‘C’-word, accusing developer-cum-musician Albert ‘Albare’ Dadon of impropriety at the Jazz Corner Hotel. The Corner Hotel is an iconic live music venue in eastern Melbourne, operated since 1995 by Swancom P/L, which also runs the famous Northcote Social Club. The Corner hosts
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A man appearing in Sutherland Local Court has been sentenced over his behaviour outside The Prince in Kirrawee, mid-2018. 29-year-old Graham Campbell from Wyong stood before Magistrate Hugh Donnelly over the incident on 8 June. Campbell was reportedly asked to leave the premises after becoming drunk and disorderly. He attempted several times to regain entry,
Four young women are facing court on multiple charges including assaulting police after poor behaviour outside a Maitland pub. A disagreement in the well-patronised pub’s beer garden around 1am on Sunday morning lead to one woman being asked to leave by security. Police claim she refused, and other people she was socialising with became involved.
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