COUNCIL GETS ITS PUB, PELATHON SAYS FAREWELL

In a final twist of the Cairns Courthouse caper, Pelathon has surprised the Council and pulled the pin and will cease trading this week. Following the announcement that Pelathon Management Group would be buying Lantern’s historic Courthouse Hotel in Cairns,

PENALTY RATES DEBATE REARS EARLY FOR ELECTION

Early election jostling has seen political leaders vie for the attentions of business and the unemployed in WA, flaring up a long-standing national debate on penalty rates. Western Australia will see a State election on 11 March, 2017, and experiencing

NOVEMBER WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY

Men are not the only perpetrators of antisocial behaviour and as the summer surge begins November saw news of three incidents of violence by women in Australian pubs. Just past midnight into 5 November, a 24-year-old woman is alleged to

COMMUNITY OUTCRY FOR PUB PUNCH VICTIM’S FAMILY

A senseless brawl outside a north Queensland pub has left a man in a coma and a town rallying in support. On Friday, 18 November around 11pm an altercation began between a group of men outside the Court House Hotel

VIOLENT PATRONS SLUGGED JUST DESSERTS

Men in Victoria and Queensland have been hit with tough penalties for their roles in two incidents of antisocial behaviour in pubs. On 6 May at the Railway Hotel in Bannockburn, two men not known to each other got into

MASSIVE RALLY PLANNED TO KEEP SYDNEY OPEN

Following Tuesday’s release of the much-anticipated Callinan Review, Sydneysiders are coming together in a massive rally 9 October to demand government Keep Sydney Open. In February, as the Review into Sydney’s ‘lockout’ licensing laws geared up, over 15,000 people gathered