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BIG DROP IN VIOLENT INCIDENTS IN VENUES HIGHLIGHTS DISPARITY

Liquor & Gaming’s latest NSW violent venues list has been released, the highly positive results again widening the comparison between it and reality. The twice-annual list details venues that have accumulated 12 or more violent incidents in the prior 12 months, heralding conditions including no glass and drink restrictions from midnight, cessation of service 30 […]

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ILGA TO REVIEW LONG-STANDING ‘NEWCASTLE SOLUTION’

Trade Restriction / Clyde Mooney

After nine years and industry pressure, the liquor watchdog will be conducting a review into the special conditions on 15 venues known as the ‘Newcastle solution’. The NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) has announced the review and submission process, to be conducted by barrister Jonathan Horton QC. The process will look at the

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REGULATORS ANNOUNCE SPECIAL LATE-TRADING FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

The Victorian and Queensland licensing regulators have announced favourable late-trading conditions for New Year’s Eve for pubs. The November VCGLR bulletin heralded automatic trading extension for willing venues, in recognition of the special circumstances of NYE. This involves an extension to 1am for hotel licences trading until midnight, and until 3am for late-trading licences. The

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BIG AMENDMENTS FOR NSW SMALL BARS

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

NSW Liquor & Gaming continues its support for small bars, with new relaxed drink service conditions following recent increases to patron numbers and trading hours. Small bars in the Sydney CBD and Kings Cross will now be able to serve spirits without mixers and cocktails not on the menu (beyond midnight) – restrictions imposed on

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DENMARK’S PRINCE FREDERIK DENIED ENTRY FOR NOT HAVING ID

Red Tape / Clyde Mooney

Queensland’s controversial ID scanner system has seen global headlines, for the wrong reason, after honorary Aussie Prince Frederik of Denmark was denied entry to a Brisbane bar. Last Friday, just before midnight, the 49-year-old Prince and his entourage fronted Brisbane’s trendy Jade Buddha Bar at Eagle St Pier, only to be turned away for not

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SMOKING BANS & CONSEQUENCES HIT VICTORIA TOMORROW

1 Comment / Trade Restriction / Clyde Mooney

Victoria will tomorrow join the rest of Australia, plunged into the toxic quagmire and noxious penalties arising from the ban on smoking in outdoor dining areas. Although it is a decade since the bans on indoor smoking came almost universally into Australian hospitality venues, Victoria has held out the longest in extending this move to

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ID SCANNERS UNDER FIRE IN QLD VENUES

Trade Restriction / Clyde Mooney

Less than two weeks into operation and Queensland’s new ID scanner laws are under fierce attack, and the Premier is already hinting they may be changed. Figures released by the Attorney-General on Monday reported 481,758 people have been scanned since the scheme began on 1 July. The scheme requires venues in Safe Night Precincts (SNPs)

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SO-CALLED VIOLENT VENUES’ CARNAGE CONTINUES

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

The latest Liquor & Gaming Violent Venues list continues to plunder the named and shamed, further highlighting a responsibility on the regulator to ensure it represents actual problem venues. The 15 NSW hotels cited on the bi-annual Violent Venues list are located predominantly in Sydney (9 venues), with the Central Coast and North Coast each

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7-YEAR BAN FOR LICENSEE BUT HOTEL AND OWNER SUFFER

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

Liquor & Gaming NSW has delivered a 7-year ban to the former licensee of the Hotel Orange, following his conviction for commercially growing cannabis. An investigation in 2014 by NSW Police discovered a cannabis set-up deemed to be commercial under the control of Joshua Meijer, licensee of Hotel Orange. Meijer also ran three companies, which

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IVY SLUGGED ON SKEWED LIST OF ‘VIOLENT’ VENUES

News & Releases / Clyde Mooney

NSW Liquor & Gaming has released its latest list of the State’s so-called Violent Venues, defending the scheme’s vilification of venues, and contradicting Sydney LAC and sitting MPs. The intent of the Liquor & Gaming Violent Venues scheme is to “regulate licensed premises with high levels of assaults and other violent incidents”. The scheme produces

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BIG DROP IN VIOLENT INCIDENTS IN VENUES HIGHLIGHTS DISPARITY

ILGA TO REVIEW LONG-STANDING ‘NEWCASTLE SOLUTION’

REGULATORS ANNOUNCE SPECIAL LATE-TRADING FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE

BIG AMENDMENTS FOR NSW SMALL BARS

DENMARK’S PRINCE FREDERIK DENIED ENTRY FOR NOT HAVING ID

SMOKING BANS & CONSEQUENCES HIT VICTORIA TOMORROW

ID SCANNERS UNDER FIRE IN QLD VENUES

SO-CALLED VIOLENT VENUES’ CARNAGE CONTINUES

7-YEAR BAN FOR LICENSEE BUT HOTEL AND OWNER SUFFER

IVY SLUGGED ON SKEWED LIST OF ‘VIOLENT’ VENUES

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