The Victorian regulator has released its annual report for FY19, outlining key outcomes and achievements including three complex investigations into major gambling licensees. The Victorian Commission for Gambling & Liquor Regulation’s (VCGLR) report for 2018-19 was tabled in State Parliament last week, providing details on major investigations, enforcement outcomes and performance against priorities from the Commission’s Corporate […]
Queensland’s Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) has released details that hundreds of liquor licences in the State have recently been cancelled following failure to pay annual licence fees. The Liquor Act 1992 requires licensees to pay a licence fee by 31 July each year. This regulation has been in place since 2009. If
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ILGA has handed down a Strike to one Sydney licensee and a 10-year ban to another, over “blatant disregard” for RSA, and the sexual assault of a female employee. Chris Chang, licensee of a Korean restaurant in Sydney’s CBD, is facing disciplinary action over an incident on 11 October last year. Police attended around 1:30am
OLGR has hit two related licensed premises with $90k in fines for selling liquor without a licence or permit. Toowoomba hotel The Florence, previously The Office, was bought mid-2018 by an entity named Boutique Pub Co Ltd, at the same time as restaurant Oxford Garden in Bulimba, acquired by Thirsty Occasions P/L. Both companies list
Pubs are one of four sectors to be targeted in this year’s National Compliance Plan, checking consumers are getting what they pay for. The 2019-20 National Compliance Plan from the National Measurement Institute (NMI) will focus on licensed premises, supermarkets, fuel retailers, and retailers of meat, fish and poultry. This will involve visits to 10,000
The NSW Government’s Liquor Accords Grants program has announced the accords to receive funds to help them continue to make licensed venues and local communities safer. In February this year the Office of Responsible Gambling offered up $100k in funding to local liquor accords, through the new Liquor Accords Grants program, to assist initiatives intended
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ILGA has announced the conviction of the former operator of Kings Cross’ Dollhouse, and disciplinary hearing against two ALH pubs over serious gaming breaches. In March, the regulators handed down a lifetime ban to Ulysses Flevotomos for activities at Potts Point strip club Dollhouse, the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) chair Philip Crawford
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Owner of the Sportsman Hotel in Spring Hill has been issued with $20k in fines, after a history of foodservice compliance issues, most recently rat faeces found in the kitchen. 84-year-old Neil Joseph McLucas, owner of the Sportsman, pleaded guilty this week in Brisbane Magistrates Court to eight food safety breaches. In February 2018 Council
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New South Wales Liquor & Gaming has released its latest half-yearly list of ‘Violent Venues’ – presenting the best results in years. In the past six months, the number of licensed premises on the list has halved, from 12 to six, and the number of incidents is down 52 per cent. Importantly, for only the
The manager of Gosford’s Coast Bar & Restaurant is facing heavy penalties for allowing two underage girls on school work experience to serve alcohol. An investigation by Liquor & Gaming NSW, with review of CCTV footage, found two work experience girls aged 16 and 17 served alcohol to patrons, despite conditions of the work
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