EARND OFFERS STAFF AND BUSINESSES FLEXIBLE PAY
Leading human resource and payroll software and services provider Ascender has announced partnership with “flexible pay provider” Earnd to offer Australian businesses and employees the benefits of accessing wages as they are earned. More than 700,000 Australian employees are
VENUES BUSTED FOR INTOX AND MINOR GAMING
Regulators have kick-started the financial year with decisions against two licensed venues, over allowing intoxication, and a minor operating a gaming machine. The NSW District Court last week heard an appeal from the licensee of Bathurst’s Elephant & Castle Hotel
HANDY TAKES UP FIGHT FOR BEYOND BLUE
Pub professional and part-time pugilist Sam Handy of HTL Property took the fight to the ring on Friday night, overcoming a sizeable height and weight disadvantage in the name of Beyond Blue. The quiet-spoken and charitably proportioned Mr Handy joined
WEIGHTS & MEASURES TARGETING PUBS
Pubs are one of four sectors to be targeted in this year’s National Compliance Plan, checking consumers are getting what they pay for. The 2019-20 National Compliance Plan from the National Measurement Institute (NMI) will focus on licensed premises, supermarkets,
FEROS UNVEILS ALL-NEW UNION PLACE HOTEL
John Feros’ JDA Hotels has announced the opening of its large-scale pub development at the former Jannali Inn, welcoming Union Place Hotel to the Shire. Feros acquired the Jannali Inn in 2015, from builder-operators the Durkin family, who built the
YENDA HOTEL A CONTENDER
After two decades at the wheel, Lance Gilbert has put up his beloved pub in mid-western NSW. Gilbert spent time in Yenda as a youth, his family operating a farm close to town. His mother had been brought up in
THE BRUNNY IS TRULY NO MORE
On what would have been its tenth birthday, Melbourne live music doyen the Brunswick Hotel has announced it will never reopen. In the early hours of a Thursday, 22 March 2018, a car collided with and sheared off a fire
UKrazy: BEAUTY QUEEN PUNCH-UP AND RUING ROUGHEST PUBS LOST
Despite Australia’s archival links to the UK, pubs in Britain vary somewhat from here, if not the rest of the world – as seen in a Miss England finalist fracas, and the ‘Newlyn knockout’ house specialty. The height of summer,
WALKER DOUGLAS AND CALLEN OFFER UP SINGLETON SOVEREIGNTY
The Walker Douglas Group has teamed up with Callen Hotels to offer the freehold going concern of Singleton’s handsome Imperial Hotel. The ‘Impy’ Singleton overlooks main drag John Street, just off the New England Highway through town, around an hour’s
PRIVATE BUYER SNAPS UP HARBOUR VIEW
The freehold Harbour View Hotel has sold to a private buyer thought to be looking at its real estate prospects in Sydney’s historic The Rocks. A high net worth individual believed to be from the provedore sector has paid close
