A Coroner’s inquest into the deaths of two men in an explosion at the closing of the Hotel Rochester has brought into question the responsibilities of the financially stressed outgoing operators. The Hotel in Rochester* was previously operated by husband and wife publicans Wayne and Denise Conway. On 14 June, 2014, they were forced to […]
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An argument outside a Petersham pub on Monday turned nasty as one of two men involved pulled a knife and wounded the other. Police issued a notification early on Tuesday morning about the incident, which took place soon after 11pm the previous night. Officers from Marrickville station attended and established a crime scene. A 20-year-old
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A good Samaritan is in hospital after trying to intervene in an argument between a couple in Hornsby’s Railway Hotel. A 54-year-old man was reported to have been arguing with his girlfriend around 7pm on Wednesday night (16 November) when a friend to the woman, a man aged 30, attempted to break up the dispute.
Trial results of very similar cases of antisocial behaviour in pubs in NSW and Queensland show very different outcomes for perpetrators. A man (who cannot be named for legal reasons) was at a Laidley pub with his wife and children in February last year. When he was overcharged for a beer, he raised a glass
Southern Victorian pubs have seen a rash of anti-social behaviour in recent days, involving weapons and a brutal gang attack. In the early hours of Saturday (5 November) security ejected a “gang” that was causing trouble plus three other men from the Bay Hotel in Mornington. The gang, numbering around ten and described as of
A Geelong pub is facing legal action by a patron for failure of duty of care, for injuries she sustained on the premises three years ago. In October 2013, a woman on the dance floor of Cazbar, the nightclub in the Sphinx Hotel, was picked up and subsequently dropped by another patron. It is unknown
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A teenage has been arrested for brutally bashing the owner of the Rocks Tavern – revenge for banning the kid for bad behaviour eight years earlier. Kevin Mullins, now aged 74, made headlines in 2008 for banning a seven-year-old boy from his pub in Carpenter Rocks for a month. The kid had for months reportedly
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The backlash is building to the destruction of Carlton’s beloved Corkman Irish Pub, illegally demolished by its developer owners two weeks ago. Stefce Kutlesovski and Raman Shaqiri bought the pub for $4.76 million last year, and reportedly told previous owner Alf King they intended to turn the property into apartments, despite the fact that a
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The Federal Court has today seen the start of a case by a self-confessed former pokies “addict” against manufacturer Aristocrat and Crown Casino, now amended to also challenge RTP. Lead applicant Shonica Guy is being represented pro-bono by prominent Melbourne-based law firm Maurice Blackburn in the case, said to centre on claims of misleading conduct
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Suspicion has turned to scandal following the illegal demolition of the beloved and historic Corkman Irish Pub in Carlton. The pub was purchased for $4.76 million in October 2014 by an unnamed local developer, and when the lease expired shortly after the business closed. Around 6am on 8 October this year a fire was spotted
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