A COVID-defying publican who opened his Pastoral Hotel in Echuca during the lockdowns has faced court and been fined for his insolence. During Victoria’s fifth lockdown, in 2021, the Pastoral Hotel reopened for three days before being forced to close again. Owner Trevor Bernard Andrews insisted he had a “constitutional right” to trade. Disagreeing with […]
Queensland Police have released CCTV footage in the hunt for the man who smashed a poker machine at ALH’s Old Sydney Hotel last month. Footage captured the incident around 4pm on 20 October at the pub, depicting a man verbally accosting staff behind a desk before using a gaming machine stool to smash the screen
Two people have been charged following the alleged robbery of a Windsor hotel, with one of the alleged perpetrators an employee of the pub. Police were called to the Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney’s north-west about 9.30pm on Sunday, 18 September. They were told a man wearing dark clothing and a face covering had gained entry
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Investors in Damian Kelly’s Peak Invest pub fund are taking him to task in the NSW Supreme Court, seeking more than a million dollars be repaid even after the portfolio sold at more than 1.5 times book value. A former investment banker, Kelly began building the collection in 2015, Pub Invest growing to own Surry
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Police have arrested a man after a brazen mid-morning robbery from a hotel in Cambridge Park. At around 10:45am on 24 September, a man entered the gaming room of the Overlander Hotel Motel Cambridge Park, a Top-150 gaming pub, and stood near a Cash Redemption Terminal (CRT). The man waited for the attendant to leave
Former Western Bulldog Brennan Stack and his brother have been sent to prison and banned from every licensed venue in the state over the brutal assault of three women after leaving a nightclub. On 20 march the 34-year-old former AFL player and his 26-year-old brother Shai Martin were filmed punching, kicking, dragging and stomping cousins
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The self-proclaimed ‘Freedom Hotel’ of Singleton is back in the news, protesting Council’s notice of tough action if its owners do not remove an unauthorised and potentially offensive flag from the roof. A letter from Council dated 29 August spoke of Notice of Intention to issue a “Development Control Demolition Order” after continued inaction by
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A Hunter Valley publican is facing a slew of charges relating to supply and possession of cocaine at his Scone pub. 37-year-old John William Allen, aka Jack Allen, fronted Muswellbrook Local Court last week to face multiple charges, the most serious being supply cocaine on an ongoing basis. Hunter Valley detectives, part of Strike Force
PubTIC has been investigating one of the biggest questions in Australian pub real estate with the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation: why do pub transfers take so long in Queensland? The OLGR reports transactional activity has been high in the Sunshine State, finding a 12 per cent year-on-year increase during FY22 in the number
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A manager and bartender from the Newcastle region have pleaded guilty to supplying drugs to patrons in the hotel. On the evening of 29 April, police with the Port Stephens Hunter Drug Unit allegedly observed Gareth Ian Wilkinson offering to sell 0.8g of cocaine for $300 to a patron of the Shoal Bay Country Club.
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