Black Rhino Group

BURNETTS CALL TIME AT ST LORDS AFTER 45 YEARS

Posted on September 17th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
After an impressive 45 years of ownership, Geelong hospitality stalwarts the Burnett family have completed the sale process on their treasured St Lords Hotel. Former President of AHA Vic, Peter Burnett, established the pub on a high-profile corner in Newtown

BLACK RHINO BACK IN THE SUNSHINE

Posted on August 6th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Dave Tomsic’s Black Rhino Group has swooped on its fifth Queensland pub, snaring the large-format Hotel Hinchinbrook in Ingham. Around 100 kilometres north of Townsville, Ingham is a town on the Bruce Highway servicing local population approaching 5K residents, plus

TOMSIC TALKS ANOTHER GRAND IDEA

Posted on August 2nd, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Dave Tomic’s bellicose Black Rhino has chased down another prized local in Millicent, adding the Grand Hotel to the growing portfolio.
 The elegant two-storey Grand Hotel, built in 1900 in the Federation style from local sandstone, is the most recent

BLACK RHINO BACKS UP IN THE SUNSHINE STATE

Posted on March 15th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Dave Tomsic’s Black Rhino Group has continued its run into Queensland, picking up Irvin Hotels’ long-held Overlander Hotel in Mount Isa. Set on a large-format site on main drag Marian Street through Mount Isa’s Townview, the pub counts 40 EGMs,

BLACK RHINO BANKS CARDINIA PARK

Posted on November 2nd, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Dave Tomsic’s Black Rhino Group has paid over $25 million for the Deegan family’s sprawling Cardinia Park Hotel at Beaconsfield. Established in 1926, the Cardinia Park Hotel occupies a commanding 48,976sqm (4.9ha) lot in Melbourne’s south-east. It features a fully

MELBOURNE’S BIGGEST PRIVATE GAMING OPERATOR BUYS AGAIN IN SA

Posted on April 1st, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Dave Tomsic’s Black Rhino continues its run into South Australia, announcing settlement of the Kadina Hotel, in the ‘Little Cornwall’ region. A handsome, Federation-style two-storey stone pub on the corner of Taylor and Hallett Streets, the Kadina boasts a classic front

BLACK RHINO CONQUERS COPPER TOWN

Posted on March 21st, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
Melbourne-based Black Rhino Group has taken another run at South Australian potential, buying all three pubs in the Copper Coast town of Moonta. Found around 160 kilometres north-west of Adelaide, Moonta is a community of over 4,000 people and one

BLACK RHINO PICKS UP THE GEORGE

Posted on June 21st, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
David Tomsic’s Black Rhino Group has maintained momentum into South Australia, locking in his third pub in the new state – the George Hotel, in Millicent. Previously known as the Sportman’s Hotel, the rebranded The George is on main drag

BLACK RHINO TAKES CRAIG’S ROYAL HOTEL

Posted on March 13th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
Ballarat’s biggest-ever sale has transacted, seeing the long-serving Finnings family pass the baton of Craig’s Royal Hotel to the growing Black Rhino Group. The heritage-listed pub was built 1853, as the Ballarat Hotel, celebrating the first licensed premise in town.