Pub Relations

PENALTY RATES DEBATE REARS EARLY FOR ELECTION

Posted on December 2nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

Posted on December 2nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

Posted on November 28th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

Posted on September 30th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

Posted on September 16th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
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

SENTENCES FOR ALCOHOL ASSAULTS: VICTORIA vs NSW

Posted on August 22nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Assailants have been sentenced after serious alcohol-soaked assaults that nearly killed innocent victims, with a Victorian teen facing greater time than two Sydney men. In June, 2015, brothers Kye Smith and Corey Lucas beat and seriously injured Keighery Hotel assistant

ELECTION FIASCO REVIVES ANTI-POKIES POLLIES

Posted on July 18th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
The turbulent election result has given new life to the old power-trippers again calling for sweeping restrictions to be placed on the nation’s poker machines. The ghosts of minority governments past are chuckling as the newly-elected Turnbull Government grapples with

PUB’S FUTURE IS FOOD: THE BEST

Posted on July 8th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A parliament of hungry minds assembled recently at the offices of AHA NSW to hear expert insights into the ‘Future of Food’ in pubs. An esteemed panel of chefs and industry cornerstones headlined the event for St.George’s Business Banking division,