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 spotlight last year over increasing crime and anti-social behaviour, which it’s thought have been exacerbated […]
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 liquor licensing reforms to reduce violence. The study estimates the impact of these policies on
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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 Kelly was asked to leave the premises. Police allege he became argumentative, grabbing the female
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 on 17 January, at the normally sedate Lighthouse Hotel, Ulverstone, west of the northern Tasmania
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 (BWLA) rules stipulate that anyone found committing an act of violence will be automatically banned
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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 was found unconscious at the scene, outside Scruffy Murphy’s, which is believed to soon be
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 hour north of Brisbane. The two men, one a local the other from nearby Cabulture,
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 August last year at the Union Hotel in Ascot Vale. McDonald and his brother were
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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 saw up to 30 men erupt into fighting inside and outside, with management unable to
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 for unfettered violence, with a woman posting her delighted observation of another “good old pub
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