backpackers

PUBS FACE BACKPACKER CRUNCH

Posted on September 28th, 2026 by Jane Louise
Australia’s Working Holiday Maker program is about more than migration numbers. For pubs and hotels across regional Australia it is also about having enough people behind the bar, in the kitchen, cleaning rooms and keeping the doors open. Regional hospitality

PUB MANAGER CONVICTED OVER SEX CRIMES

Posted on September 29th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
A disgraced former manager of the Roebuck Bay Hotel in WA’s wild northwest has been convicted of a slew of sex crimes after abusing his position of power at the outback pub. 51-year-old Stewart Patrick Burchell, who ran the well-known

HOSPITALITY BACK ON ITS FEET AS BACKPACKERS RETURN

Posted on February 5th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Backpackers are hiking their way back to Australia, bringing with them life for the hospitality industry. Department of Home Affairs data shows that during the peak of COVID across the financial year 2020-2021, working holiday maker visas had plummeted to

‘FRESH MEAT’ AT HOTEL COOLGARDIE

Posted on July 5th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Hotel Coolgardie is a raw, documentary-style film that puts a spotlight on a harsh side of hospitality in outback pubs, following the story of a 3-month deployment of two female Finnish backpackers to a depleted WA mining town. The industry