The Australian Hotels Association WA has slammed the latest ‘Alcohol Poll’ by FARE (Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education) as “distorted” and guilty of “fear-mongering” around alcohol consumption. The AHA WA says the questions in the latest survey, which uses a cash reward commercial service to garner and encourage respondents, is both the wrong methodology […]
Set to take over the Newport Arms in late May, Justin Hemmes revealed some of the plans he hopes will make the Northern Beaches icon Merivale’s greatest achievement to date. Conscious of the gravity of tinkering with one of Sydney’s best-loved pubs, the CEO of one of the country’s most dynamic hospitality groups spoke with
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Hospitality group Solotel and beer giant Carlton & United Breweries are hosting a series of fundraisers to send money and clothing, after the massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal on the weekend. The quake created a lot of innocent victims in a very poor part of the world, and touched Australia both through our
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The magnificent Carrington Hotel in Katoomba has won a hard-fought battle to transform part of its heritage structure into a micro-brewery and “major tourist attraction”. Built in 1882 in the style of a Victorian grand hotel, it was named after NSW Governor Lord Carrington and has sheltered Prime Ministers, celebrities and even British Royalty. The
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On Monday Orange Local Court fined a man $1300 over his drunken behaviour and failure to leave a local hotel. Mechanic Benjamin Gray was asked by staff to leave the hotel in the early hours of 4 April, but argued with security outside. Passing police on a routine patrol spotted Gray in what they described
The AHA NSW has launched a widespread campaign to remind people of the community depth and significance of the Aussie pub. Launched last night, four 30-second TVCs began on State-wide television, followed up this morning by pre-recorded ads and live reads on 2GB (Alan Jones, Ray Hadley and Ben Fordham). Beginning today, 15-second “region-specific” radio
Former footballer now lifelong wheelchair user Neil Sachse is launching ‘Project Discovery’ to raise money for ground-breaking spinal cord treatment. Forty years ago Sachse suffered an injury in just his second professional AFL match, which left him a quadriplegic. After two decades being told his life would never be the same, he decided to start
Independent Pub Group has completed its strategic exit from Queensland, selling the last of its hotels in that State to the up and coming Raw Group. The Commercial Hotel Nambour was the seventh and final asset sell-off for IPG, with the freehold going concern passing to Raw for $3.5 million. The divestment campaign included the
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Running a pub is all about being social; on the floor, behind the bar, on Facebook. Hospitality workers do their RSA, you spend time training your staff and do your business management and accounting courses – but how many pub owners are actually trained to be social online? Mostly none. Possibly because such qualifications have
More reports have surfaced on impressive drops in rates of violence due to cooperation between venues and police. NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) statistics show Sydney North precincts of North Sydney and Mosman experienced only 35 incidents in licensed premises last year (to September), which represents a 48.5 per cent improvement on
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