Alcohol-related violence

TODD TAVERN ATTACKED, PROMPTING ALICE LOCKDOWN

Posted on April 5th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Alice Springs is in the midst of a two-week curfew on its youth, after a spate of violence and unrest in the town saw an attack on the Todd Tavern. Located roughly 2k kilometres north-west of Sydney, Alice entered the

BOCSAR REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF ANTI-VIOLENCE POLICIES

Posted on January 17th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A new study out of BOCSAR heralds stark results in its assessment of which NSW liquor licensing policies delivered the largest reduction in violent crime in and around venues. Between 2008 and 2018 the NSW Government implemented a range of

PUB BRAWL LEADS TO GUNS, DRUGS AND SIX ARRESTS

Posted on March 17th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
A pub brawl in outer Newcastle prompted a police investigation, resulting in officers from the Raptor anti-bikie gang task force arresting four men and two women. The incident took place mid-afternoon on Saturday, 18 February, starting when 36-year-old Blair John

QUIET PUB ROCKS MAJOR BIFFO

Posted on February 3rd, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
CCTV footage has emerged of a serious brawl in an Ulverstone pub, where a minor dispute became an all-hands-on-deck battle that spilled outside and involved most anything not tied down. The melee is understood to have taken place around 8:45pm

CENTRAL COAST VENUES’ TOUGH ‘BANNED FROM ALL’ SCHEME

Posted on October 21st, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
The Brisbane Water Liquor Accord has rolled out its updated hard-line policy against patron misbehaviour, announcing ‘Banned From One, Banned From All’ across around 30 central coast venues. In a hard-hitting warning to potential offenders, the Brisbane Water Liquor Accord

PATRONS BEHAVING BADLY

Posted on June 13th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
A spate of serious violent incidents in pubs in eastern capitals has brought hospitalisations and partial amputations. On Friday night, emergency services were called to an Irish pub on Goulburn Street, on reports of two men fighting. A 24-year-old man

HOSPITAL CAN WAIT: STABBED MAN RETURNS TO PUB

Posted on April 16th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
A Cabulture man has demonstrated the importance of beer, returning to a Queensland pub after a fight with a knife sticking out of his back. Earlier this month, two men were kicked out of a pub in Beerwah, around an

MUGS WANTED OVER UNPROVOKED BASHING IN ASCOT VALE

Posted on January 15th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Victorian police are hunting for three men involved in a unprovoked and pathetic group bashing of another man within a Melbourne pub. CCTV (below) shows four or five men accosting 55-year-old grandfather Tony McDonald on the evening of Sunday, 13

KILLER OF TEEN IN PUB BRAWL SENTENCED

Posted on November 10th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
The man who killed teenager Patrick Cronin with an unprovoked punch to the head during a brawl at the Windy Creek Hotel, has been tried and sentenced for manslaughter. A brawl at the pub in Diamond Creek in outer Melbourne

UK PUBS SMACK AUSSIE NANNY STATE

Posted on June 7th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Alcohol-soaked violence in pubs continues to be a major issue in the UK, drawing stark comparison to the comparatively mild incidents in Australia so often inflamed by scandal-hungry media. Last week, The Yenton pub in Birmingham hit the news again