Ending more than four decades custodianship, former AHA NSW President John Thorpe has sold the iconic Harbord Beach Hotel to local real estate tycoon and industry newcomer Glenn Piper. Thorpe and partner Trish King took the reins to the landmark pub beside Freshwater Beach in 1978, and have owner-operated it since, with son Sean King […]
Principals at a pub in Queensland’s Darling Downs have been convicted and fined $11,000 after breaches including allowing a minor to drink and gamble at the venue. An Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR) investigation discovered breaches by Big Fish Drink P/L, of the Clifton Arms Hotel, dating back to November 2018. The licensee
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After a half-century of original ownership, the Masen family is reluctantly parting with its big suburban hotel of Good Intent in Grafton. In 1957 two Grafton locals, hotelier Reg Hinch and builder Reg Want, built the “Ultra-Modern” Good Intent Hotel in their home town amid much local acclaim, at a lavish cost of £90,000 (more
The licensee of Broadmeadow’s Premier Hotel has been punished for breach of extended licensing conditions on the first weekend of the venue’s extended trading. In the first half of 2019, three pubs in the Hunter region applied to Liquor & Gaming for extended operating hours. Authority was granted for late trade Friday and Saturday night,
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Australian craft beer royalty Matilda Bay will throw open the doors to its new pub-brewery in the Yarra Valley on Boxing Day, led by the returning founder, Phil Sexton. Sexton began Matilda Bay 35 years ago, partnering with Carlton & United Breweries to reinvigorate the country’s artisan beer market. In October came announcement he would
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A Toowoomba gaming attendant has walked away without a conviction or his job, after chasing his own lost $20 on Keno with over $66,000 of the hotel’s money. On Sunday 6 January 27-year-old Benjamin Naythan Shipp was working a quiet afternoon 2-6:30 shift at Toowoomba’s Portadown Hotel. The accredited gaming attendant had access to the
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After seven decades and three generations, the Leary family has sold its Shamrock Hotel in Temora to another in the convoy of Sydney-based publicans. Built on a 1,242sqm block on the main road through Temora, around 400 kilometres west of Sydney, the sizeable Shamrock offers a public bar, large all-weather beer garden, commercial kitchen, gaming
The unique and enigmatic Captain’s Flat Hotel – home of the loooong bar – is hosting a rocking three-day festival of live music in support of the Fire Service. Captain’s Flat, and its only Hotel, are to be found around three and a half hours’ drive south-south-west of Sydney, or an hour south-east of Canberra.
Redcape ends a record-setting year in pub real estate with a bang, acquiring Hurstville’s Kings Head Tavern while divesting its Royal Hotel Granville for $51 million to the same party. The ASX-listed Redcape Hotel Group (ASX: RDC) today announced a deal with hotelier and owner of AVS Security Pierre Sleiman to ‘exchange’ its Top30 corner
Sparkke – the brewery on a mission – has taken the next step in ambitious goals with purchase of Collingwood’s historic Vine Hotel, set to become a new pub-brewery showpiece. In 1869, the Caledonian Hotel was the first built on the site of what is now the Vine Hotel, on the corner of Wellington and
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