The Thompson family has listed its newly refurbished Moorooka pub, the Red Lion, in Brisbane’s booming south. The Red Lion occupies a prominent corner block on bustling Beaudesert Road, around nine kilometres from the Brisbane CBD. Simon Thompson and partners bought the pub late 2014 and executed a complete makeover, encompassing the bar, lounge bar, […]
Peter Cooke and Stephen Beaumont have successfully divested title of their big-format Blazing Stump in another example of the demand for strong commercial assets in Victoria. Occupying 1,780sqm on a 5,708sqm site in the heart of Wodonga, on the Victoria-NSW border, the Blazing Stump is a free-standing single level pub built 1880, operated by Cooke
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The bold and beautiful Abbotts Hotel Waterloo has unleashed its ‘Beer-o-meter’ offering hot and thirsty Sydneysiders frosty discounted and potentially free beer when the summer temps soar. Set on Botany Road, on the coal face of gentrification’s spread into the working class city-fringe ‘burbs, the Waterloo works hard to retain satisfied patrons while encouraging newcomers.
Australia’s most prominent gaming group has taken another step toward IPO aspirations with a return to Wattle Grove and acquisition from the Malouf family. In 2010 Hedley Leisure – the ancestral base of Redcape Hotel Group – sold the western Sydney Wattle Grove Hotel tenanted by National Leisure & Gaming (NLG) to the Maloufs for
Ahead of the State election on 17 March, Nick Xenophon’s all-singing, all-dancing SA Best party has released its new watered-down approach to poker machine reform with a politicised policy set to please nobody. After two decades and three parties, Xenophon’s foundational “no pokies” platform has finally bowed to pressure for moderation, after the prohibition approach
After years of lobbying by industry, Western Australia yesterday saw the introduction of reforms heralding greater flexibility and opportunity for the State’s licensed venues. The Liquor Control Amendment Bill 2018 tabled in parliament represented the State Government’s reforms to WA’s Liquor Control Act 1988. Significantly, a number of key amendments elevate the importance of hospitality
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Just over a year since he revived the Hampshire and made it a Lady, Paddy Coughlan has listed the inner-west local to chase opportunities in the craft market. Former Riversdale CEO Coughlan took on the lease of Camperdown’s Hampshire Hotel in September 2016, immediately executing a million-dollar renovation of the Parramatta Road pub, which had
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The unmistakably British Duke of Clarence in inner Sydney reports a great response to its themed pub, serving up a new home-style menu and flirting with serving warm(er) beer to Aussies. Liquor industry stalwarts Mike Enright and Julian Train are the nous behind Barrelhouse Group, which hit the scene with the original Barber Shop bar
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The two women that saved the Colbinabbin Hotel have passed the baton to another two women, carrying on the legacy of the Victorian pub. The red brick pub has stood on the main road of Colbinabbin, about two hours north of Melbourne, for more than 100 years. Around four years ago, the long-standing publican moved
Liquor & Gaming NSW has announced new compulsory training for all licensees and managers of licensed venues across NSW. The courses are expected to run for one day, available either face-to-face or online, with assessment at the end, and will be introduced gradually to facilitate attendance, starting Q4 of this year. They will build on
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