KINSELAS BREAK-IN LEAVES BANDIT SORE AND SORRY
Sydney’s Kinselas was victim to a criminal mastermind, orchestrating a cunning entry into the Darlinghurst pub and making off with a bag of convenient booty. NSW Police report CCTV footage (below) caught a man around 4am yesterday (10 July) using
BAM OFFLOADS BIG GAMER VAUXHALL INN TO REDCAPE
Redcape has let loose the chequebook again, acquiring Bondi Asset Management’s Vauxhall Inn for around $40 million. Bondi Asset Management (BAM) was formed in 2015, counting Sydney hotelier Andrew Lazarus and former Citibank director Stuart King as stakeholders. BAM kicked
SWEET PROSPECTS FOR KALAMIA HOTEL SALE
The booming Kalamia Hotel has come to market, in the hearts of 1,000 local backpackers working year-round in the precinct. Ayr is around 90 kilometres south of Townsville, and known as the sugarcane capital of Australia. The Kalamia Hotel occupies
MAN CHARGED OVER GLASSING AT GOLD COAST PUB
A young man has been charged with grievous bodily harm after reportedly assaulting another man with a glass in a Gold Coast hotel over the weekend. Police report that around 1am on Saturday (7 July) at the Coolangatta Hotel, a
UNCONSCIOUS FEMALE PATRONS DUMPED ON STREET
A Sydney restaurant has received a Strike and fine and may face further repercussions for dumping two unconscious and highly intoxicated female patrons on the street. A police report presented to the Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) stated that
ABBOTT’S GETS DIRT OVER HIPSTER BAN
Everyman’s publican, Bill Smith, is again riding the publicity wave with an announcement that Abbott’s Hotel Waterloo has put hipsters on notice, banning man-buns and handlebar moustaches. Lurking just south of the CBD and increasingly gentrified Redfern, Waterloo is still
ROYAL MAIL BALLARAT IN RECEIVERSHIP – AGAIN
A well-known Ballarat pub has closed its doors again, after a second tenant, connected with the first, has had liquidators take over. The Royal Mail was operated by Royal Mail Hotel (Ballarat) Pty Ltd under a vendor finance agreement, until
SYDNEY COUNCIL FORKING OUT FOR LIVE MUSIC IN PUBS
City of Sydney is putting its money where it counts, issuing live music grants to Sydney pubs in a bid to reinvigorate live music. The City of Sydney (CoS) Council has committed to providing over $225k in grant funding to
UPDATE: SEXTONS DO A PHOENIX ON VICTORIA PARK HOTEL
Less than a month after a fire destroyed their home of two decades and life as they knew it, Robyn and Frank Sexton have resumed trading at their scorched, historic Townsville pub. After more than 20 years running Townsville’s oldest
FOUR IN HAND TO STAY PUB WITH SALE TO GOOD BEER CO
PHMG has sold its highly speculated Four in Hand to the Good Beer Company, marking its continued future as a pub. Mitchell Waugh’s Public House Group purchased the Paddington icon in 2015, clinching a hattrick of pubs in the precinct