News & Releases

NEW FINES AS COVID INSPECTIONS CONTINUE

Posted on March 8th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
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

PUB IN BALLINA FINED $14K OVER MULTIPLE BREACHES

Posted on October 12th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

PUBS FINED OVER COVID BREACHES AS POLICE GET TOUGH

Posted on July 22nd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

NSW LOOKS TO MAJOR LIQUOR LICENSING REFORM

Posted on May 27th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

LIQUOR & GAMING TO SUPPORT INDUSTRY REOPENING

Posted on May 20th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

STRIKE FOR ASSEMBLY LICENSEE

Posted on May 20th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

VICTORIAN REGULATOR EASING LICENSEE BURDENS

Posted on April 8th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
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

VALLEY PUB FINED OVER RSA BREACHES

Posted on March 9th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The licensee of Brisbane’s GPO Hotel has been fined $5,000 after pleading guilty to two breaches of the Queensland Liquor Act 1992. The Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) began an investigation into the GPO in Fortitude Valley after

VIC LICENSEE DISQUALIFIED OVER MORE THAN A DOZEN BREACHES

Posted on February 24th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
A Victorian licensee has slipped from warning to five years’ disqualification, following a litany of breaches over a fourteen-month period. Records show the licence to operate the Ararat Hotel, around 200 kilometres west of the Melbourne CBD, was transferred to