Police in Queensland are investigating the attempted ‘armed’ hold-up of a Brisbane pub, after a man demanded cash and threatened a staffer with a finger-pistol in his jacket. The weapon-less man entered the ALH-run Pub Lane Tavern just before closing at midnight last Thursday and approached a staff member, who refused to hand over money […]
A brawl on the streets of Darling Harbour has left a man in a coma. Emilio Bonanni was walking down Eastern Promenade at Cockle Bay Wharf with friends when a verbal altercation began with three other men, which escalated into a brawl between the two groups. According to witnesses a lot of punches were thrown,
<TEXT> A hotel in Western Australia has won a landmark Supreme Court battle that could bring a new level of accountability to liquor regulators around the country. Karl Bullers purchased the National Hotel in Fremantle as a ‘vision project’ and invested several million dollars restoring the vacant, fire-damaged heritage building, to cater to “upmarket, mature
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While the man that threw a glass at TV personality Redfoo escapes with probation, the consequences continue for the hotel where the incident took place. Last August Arian Berisha was charged with assault after throwing a glass at Stefan Kendall Gordy, aka Redfoo, in Double Bay’s Golden Sheaf Hotel, around 12:30am. The American singer and
Two former Kings Cross operators have received life bans from holding liquor licences in the “toughest sanctions ever imposed” by the ILGA. Licensee John Barakat and manager Dominic Kaikaty faced a special application by the Office of Liquor Gaming & Racing (OLGR) and NSW Police following repeated breaches of the Liquor Act. The Independent Liquor
A dispute over the sale of Coogee Pavilion could see Merivale’s Justin Hemmes in court against the vendor, former Rothschild CEO David Kingston. An agreement in March last year saw the celebrity operator sign on to take over the former Coogee Palace, in a ‘put & call’ agreement that saw $5 million down and a
Police have charged a Kings Cross bouncer over a punch to an aggressive patron enraged over being denied entry at lock-out time. Around 1:30 am Tuesday, 14 April, security at a hotel on William Street in Kings Cross refused two men entry. The men allegedly threw glass bottles toward the guards as they walked away.
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On Monday Orange Local Court fined a man $1300 over his drunken behaviour and failure to leave a local hotel. Mechanic Benjamin Gray was asked by staff to leave the hotel in the early hours of 4 April, but argued with security outside. Passing police on a routine patrol spotted Gray in what they described
Warrnambool Magistrate’s Court this week handed down sentence to a man who wounded four people in a fight but was too drunk to remember. On November 28 last year Andrew John Zibell reportedly drank a “slab of beer” before going to the Merino Hotel with two women at 4pm. Police were called to a fight
A landmark case that saw hotel staff charged after a drunk patron died in a road crash has reached trial, but the hangover isn’t over yet. In mid-2013 Kangaroo Island resident Anthony Read crashed his ute into a tree driving from the Penneshaw Hotel, where he had reportedly consumed 22 drinks before being sold a
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