A Brisbane pub has found itself answering to a powerful community group, after neighbours voiced their complaints – but not to the pub. The Boundary Hotel, a classic local’s pub in Brisbane’s urban and well patronised West End, is the passion of owners Adam and Brooke Hill, who invested their life savings to purchase the […]
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A week after quiet-spoken hotel doyen Bruce Solomon seized the opportunity to slap some perspective on Sydney’s lockout laws debate, all is quiet on the nanny-state front. Solomon rose to accept his inauguration into the NSW Australian Hotels Association Hall of Fame, at the Association’s annual Awards for Excellence last Tuesday. Speaking to a crowd
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Prominent hotelier and AHA SA President, Peter Hurley, has slammed the “untaxed, totally unregulated” Airbnb, and complicit parties including the former Lord Mayor. Speaking at an AHA Christmas lunch, in front of SA Premier Jay Weatherill and treasurer Tom Koutsantonis, Hurley spoke of the realities of the trendy ‘disruptive’ technologies, such as the self-proclaimed “world’s
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The Derrimut Hotel in the Victorian suburb of Sunshine is continuing its battle with local alcohol-related violence, with reports the hotel has at times been ‘under siege’. Western Metropolitan MP Bernie Finn told Victorian State Parliament that regular antisocial behaviour at a nearby park was negatively affecting the hotel, which had been forced to employ
A British publican has barred 800 locals in the pursuit of a better chance to sell his pub. Against his wishes, Steve Coxshall’s Duke of Hampshire in Hampstead was awarded status on the list of ‘Assets of Community Value’ (ACV). A dubious honour, the ACV forces an owner to notify Council if they have intentions
The month of November will see a large-scale national campaign by American Express, educating and enticing consumers to ‘Shop Small’ and support their local businesses. The promotion will see extensive advertising coverage, citing the Economy of Shopping Small Report to raise consumer awareness around local and community-oriented businesses. The report found that the majority of
New research from St Vincent’s Hospital clearly shows how ineffective Sydney’s “lockout” restrictions are, but advocates continue to avoid the truth. Despite self-vindicating media emerging that the research “proves” the trade restrictions – often incorrectly generalised as the ‘lockout laws’ – have worked to fix violence on the streets, the study in fact shows lockouts
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Independent MP Billy Gordon has come out against the controversial plan for State-wide lockouts in Queensland, announcing plans to team with two Katter Party MPs to veto the bill. The State election in January saw Queensland Labor vow to address alcohol-related violence, and to date this has centred around consideration of 1am lockouts and 3am
Industry has dismissed the ABC’s high-profile “Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation” program as unbalanced and not credible, as the national broadcaster appears guilty of the same accusation it was trying to make. While research and commentary on gaming and gamblers seems to always support whichever side is funding it, shock-hungry media are happy to adopt any extreme
Annual statistics released last week show the success of work by Safe Night Precincts and police in dramatically reducing alcohol-related violence. The Queensland Police Service’s annual statistics reveal an impressive nine per cent drop in assaults across Safe Night Precincts across the State. Within Brisbane figures are even better, with drops of 15.6 per cent
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