ILGA DISCIPLINARY HEARING ON ALH & PUBLICAN CONVICTED
ILGA has announced the conviction of the former operator of Kings Cross’ Dollhouse, and disciplinary hearing against two ALH pubs over serious gaming breaches. In March, the regulators handed down a lifetime ban to Ulysses Flevotomos for activities at Potts
OSCARS BUILDS ON INNER WEST EMPIRE
Oscars Hotels has snapped up another inner west landmark, taking title to the freehold going concern of Parramatta Road icon the Empire Hotel, in Annandale. Built circa 1890 for Tooth’s & Co, the three-storey Empire, particularly its façade, was refashioned
PORTERS BUILD FUTURE AT PLAINLAND PUB
The dedicated and long-serving Porter family has doubled the footprint of Porters Plainland Hotel with a $7 million development to deliver a dream more than a decade in the making. The Porter family bought the big Plainland, on a sprawling
GOOD TIMES AS INGHAM-MYERS DIVEST NEW ENGLAND
Brett Nielson and Steve Forbes have taken their newly-formed Good Times Industries west to Armidale, picking up ‘The Newie’ as the Ingham-Myers' exit the region. Nielson is long-time owner of the Glengarry Castle Hotel in Redfern, where he used to
OXFORD HOTEL DRUMMOYNE BACK TO MARKET
Private hoteliers Michael Wiggins and Joanne Cassar have put up the big corner Oxford Hotel in Drummoyne, in a rare opportunity for Sydney’s tightly-held gaming market. Wiggins and Cassar have owned a string of pub operations, divesting their Royal Exhibition
MAHONY GROUP REVIVE OXFORD SCHOLAR
Melbourne’s hallowed Oxford Scholar Hotel has returned after two years in the wilderness, under a new lease by the growing Mahony Group. Built 1857, the Oxford Scholar is on land owned by RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), on the
HOTEL ROYAL USHERS IN ‘THE COUNTESS’
Adelaide pub royalty the Hurley Group have unveiled their new take on cuisine at their Hotel Royal in Torrensville, presenting Condesa Mexican under talented multi-national chef Ashley Nguyen. Jenny and Peter Hurley’s daughter recently returned to working with the group,
UKrazy: NAKED SINGALONGS & A BEER-THEME BURIAL
Despite archival links to England and the United Kingdom, the pub world in the mother land varies somewhat from Australia, if not the rest of the world – as seen in naked singalongs and a Fosters-themed sarcophagus. Alastair Choat has
MERIVALE’S PLAN TO REVIVE SYDNEY
Justin Hemmes is leading the charge to free the capital from the shackles of subjugation, declaring steps to reinvigorate Sydney’s world-class destination status. The CBD and Kings Cross precincts that were once alive at night with throngs of patrons have
PENTAGON TAKES $30m EBC PORTFOLIO
The expanding Pentagon Group has fronted up over $30 million for EBC Leisure’s portfolio of three pubs in the blossoming apple isle. Unlisted pub vehicle EBC began moves last year to divest its pub interests, after more than a decade