The red centre has been set ablaze again with the fourth annual Broken Heel Festival booming and breaking records over the weekend. The four-day festival is a celebration of the appearance of Broken Hill – aka the ‘Silver City’ – in 1994 cult movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. This year’s festival […]
The mayor of Blacktown joined Arthur Laundy and distinguished guests to mark a construction milestone for the Marsden Park pub-brewery and a step forward for pub-government collaboration. Earlier this year Laundy Hotels celebrated the official start of construction at the Marsden Hotel & Brewhouse, within the expansive Sydney Business Park (SBP), in Marsden Park, around
The Colosimo’s Momento Hotels has been celebrating a big month, writing big cheques and making the news, just a month after agreeing to sell flagship, the Australian Hotel & Brewery. In July Momento announced a deal to sell its pride and joy to Redcape for a figure around $50 million, and a week later proclaimed
The Marlborough Hotel has been in damage control over the behaviour of security guards toward a young woman with cerebral palsy, denied entry as judged to be intoxicated. The unnamed woman was out with friends last Saturday evening, celebrating her 21st birthday. Early Sunday morning, the group arrived at the Marlborough in Newtown, where she
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An institutional Melbourne pub group is taking on American fast food giant McDonalds over a copyright and trademark infringement of The Corner. Swancom P/L has for years operated the immensely popular live music venues Northcote Social Club and The Corner Hotel, in Northcote and Richmond. In 2014 McDonalds opened a ‘test lab’ for a potential
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Back from the very public sell-down of the bulk of its portfolio, Riversdale is looking to its future and further acquisitions, as the group celebrates a milestone in operations. Riversdale is group operator for John Singleton, Geoff Dixon and Mark Carnegie’s $300m Australian Pub Fund, which burst into prominence in 2011 with a string of
Newtown’s popular and long-established Coopers Hotel has found itself in the hot media spotlight over a Facebook post that seemed to suggest violence against women in the name of the NRL finals. Just two days ago (Wednesday 18 July) Gary Wright, general manager of the Coopers, posted on social media an invitation to come to
Everyman’s publican, Bill Smith, is again riding the publicity wave with an announcement that Abbott’s Hotel Waterloo has put hipsters on notice, banning man-buns and handlebar moustaches. Lurking just south of the CBD and increasingly gentrified Redfern, Waterloo is still largely the kind of working class population that was the bread and butter of every
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
Police and emergency services were called to a fire at the Petersham Inn around 1:20am overnight after receiving reports of smoke coming from the building. The pub on Parramatta Road was closed at the time, but Fire & Rescue NSW officers attended and extinguished a small fire inside. Around 40 nearby residents were evacuated from
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