The Victorian liquor regulator has released a useful guide for operators, outlining how staff can identify and properly manage intoxication. The VGCCC (former VCGLR) stresses that intoxication is a high-harm issue, and should be top-of-mind for licensees, managers and staff. To help prevent and manage intoxicated patrons, it has released a video highlighting five key […]
A pub and licensee in Sydney’s south have been fined and penalised for failing to limit free drinks to a man on a gambling binge. Complaints lodged by Liquor & Gaming against the venue relate to the service of a 49-year-old male patron at the venue between approximately 10.00am and 9pm on 13 February, 2019.
Government inspectors continue to monitor COVID compliance in NSW venues, as Sydney’s Lord Wolseley and Bathurst’s Oxford receive over $10k in fresh fines. The Lord Wolseley Hotel in Ultimo is a classic corner family-run pub known for its leafy outlook and Sunday Jazz. An inspection by Liquor & Gaming NSW on 10 September found the
Despite low or no COVID-19 case numbers being reported in recent weeks authorities are still on the lookout, with a pub in East Ballina fined over $14k for breaches of the Public Health Order and the Liquor Act. Last Friday NSW Police released details around six infringement notices being issued to the hotel in East
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Two NSW pubs have joined the ranks of businesses being fined for breaching Public Health Orders over COVID-19, as police get tough on mandated restrictions. On the weekend plain clothes officers fined the Auburn Hotel in Sydney’s west $5,000 for multiple breaches of the current coronavirus safety regulations. The required sign-in register was reportedly full
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ILGA has handed down penalty of $200,000 in fines and costs to Dee Why RSL, for “irresponsible” practices in its gaming operation believed to have contributed to the suicide of Gary Van Duinen. A Liquor & Gaming NSW investigation exposed how the Club had wined and dined 45-year-old Van Duinen, a resident of nearby Cromer.
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The NSW regulator is putting to parliament a new demerit-based scheme for regulating licensed venues, combining three existing systems and rewarding good operators. Late 2019 the NSW Parliament Joint Select Committee released its report on Sydney’s night time economy, with the Government response in November announcing changed would be completed in stages. Stage One saw
Liquor & Gaming NSW has announced it be taking a “supportive and educative approach” to compliance in the wake of the COVID-19 reawakening. L&G notes the pandemic has created an “exceptional set of circumstances” that has and will have major impact on licensed premises, requiring flexibility on the part of the regulator. It notes the
The licensee of Assembly Bar in the Sydney CBD has received a strike, for allowing a patron to become so intoxicated she needed medical attention. The NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) issued what was the first strike to licensee Jeremy Nicholas King, under the NSW Government’s Three Strikes disciplinary scheme. It is reported
The VCGLR has been consulting with relevant entities and industry to implement a range of measures to support liquor licensees, in response to coronavirus. The Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) says it is conscious of the devastating effect the virus and shutdown is having on liquor and gambling industries and has begun
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