The National Measurement Institute has begun sending inspectors to licensed venues around the country, as part of its latest round of measurement compliance measures. Beginning this week, the National Measurement Institute (NMI) is checking quantities on the sale of beer and prescribed spirits, as per its National Compliance Plan 2021-22, designed to ensure consumers get […]
A violent altercation involving weapons and sending six people to hospital took place in a pub in the Adelaide CBD over the weekend, with police now investigating links to gang violence. Around 1am on Sunday morning emergency services were called to a disturbance at the former Old Exchange Hotel, originally the Woodman’s Inn, now known as
A Paddington hotelier has pleaded guilty to drug offences, after a covert operation that resulted in arrests and dozens of charges being laid, News reports. Officers from the Kings Cross drug unit are thought to have stopped 49-year-old Robert Moroney in his vehicle on the evening on 21 November. Searches of his car and hotel
A man has been sentenced to less than two years’ prison for a brutal steroid-fuelled attack in late 2020, assaulting a security guard and leaving an innocent patron with permanent injuries. Blakeview resident, 34-year-old Dale Ryan Lush, was drinking at the Salisbury Hotel in northern Adelaide on 21 October, 2020, with his partner, who worked
The O’Hara Group has successfully challenged a fine from the state regulator over COVID regulations, at Parramatta’s Collector Hotel. Following the first tranche of lockdowns, the O’Haras were forced to reconfigure aspects of their venues, particularly the spacing of machines in gaming rooms. Around $90k was invested at the Collector on a range of measures,
A man has been arrested and charged over a fire at the Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville on Tuesday that endangered 20 people inside and killed the pub cat, Whiskey. Police and fire services were called to the Lewis Hotels pub in the early hours, evacuating close to two-dozen staff and patrons, and two upstairs
A suspected arson attack has seriously damaged Lewis Hotels’ Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville. Around 20 people, including staff, patrons and residents in rooms upstairs, had to be evacuated via fire truck ladder through a window after the fire took hold in the stairwell. No-one was injured, but several had to be treated for the
A 22-year-old woman has been convicted and sentenced for glassing a 35-year-old work colleague at Langford’s Hotel in Mackay. Kytarna Leyland-Rice, a BHP workforce co-ordinator, hit a glass she was holding into the head of another man in her work group soon after throwing a drink in his face – following racist and sexist comments
A long-time employee of the Calamvale Hotel in Brisbane has been convicted and sentenced over embezzlement of nearly $100k from the business. Simon Te Mahia Phoenix Aramoana, 26, of Marsden, was originally employed as a security guard at the pub. Over time his role was expanded to also include general maintenance jobs. He appeared this
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In vivid contrast to the shuttered venues of NSW and Victoria, the stresses of pandemic life have helped a few too many Queenslanders into court for anti-social behaviour. Enjoying a night out at the Globe Hotel, 20-year-old Bundaberg man Jackson Paulson left with a broken jaw after 30-year-old Gracemere man Aaron Joshua Voisey punched him
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