OLGR is conducting a review into Kings Cross’ mandated ID scanners, ahead of the statutory review of the ‘lockout and last drinks’ legislation, due to take place February, 2016. Announced in the Office of Liquor Gaming & Racing (OLGR) newsletter 12 October, the original plan was for licensees, industry, government and members of the community […]
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Five men have been charged following a brawl outside Brisbane’s Boundary Hotel on Sunday night in which two police officers were assaulted and injured. Police were called to the corner of Boundary and Jane Streets shortly after midnight, after the hotel’s closure, where up to 12 men were fighting. A male and female officer trying
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Four friends recently finished perhaps Australia’s greatest pub crawl, taking 32 years to visit every Melbourne hotel. Stuart McArthur, Mick Stephens, Llewella Bates and Tim Dorgan attended teaching college together in 1980, and became regular Saturday night visitors to Carlton’s The Clyde. In an attempt to keep their post-university lives from diverging too far, they undertook a
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
Gambling Research Australia has conducted the largest research program on self-help strategies and implementation in Australia, with important results for potential problems gamblers. The GRA’s study provides comprehensive descriptions and analysis of self-help strategies, within an Australian context. It cites that self-help is the most widely used and first-choice method of help amongst troubled gamblers
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Adelaide’s historic Maylands Hotel has gone into receivership, with specifics yet to be announced. Receivers Ferrier Hodgson have been appointed to manage the freehold going concern sale of the property on behalf of owner Ray Aoukar. The classic two-storey pub, with full frontal balcony, was built in the 1880s around the time of the city’s
Sydney-based company Flat is fixing wobbly tables around the world, and the development of a wooden table and base brings new technology to old design. Founded in 2004, inventor Tony Pike developed a prototype and product using the ‘Patented Actuator Device’ (PAD), which uses hydraulics to remedy an eternal hospitality problem: wobbly and misaligned tables.
The signature hotel of one of Queensland’s holiday meccas has hit the market, prompting a flood of enquiries from “everywhere”. Residing on a strip of sand in the Coral Sea, around 30 kilometres south-east of Brisbane, North Stradbroke Island is home to the uber-popular Stradbroke Island Beach Hotel. Held by North Point Holdings for the
Following the scoop purchase last week of pub dining royalty the Woollahra Hotel, Mitchell Waugh spoke to PubTIC on plans for the famous gastro pub. The announcement last Wednesday of the acquisition of the Woollahra, brought the portfolio tally to five for the newly-formed operation, Public House Management Group (PHMG). Still settling in to its
Lion is hunting its “biggest areas of opportunity” through a new global role and dedicated positions. PubTIC asked the big brewer how this will affect pubs around Australia. Following Matt Tapper’s recent appointment to the new role of managing director – global markets, dedicated leadership roles have been created to more effectively market in the
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