The 2017 Australasian Gaming Expo (AGE) will begin in just 11 days – already breaking records as the biggest show ever, as construction begins. Ending a stint at the temporary Glebe Island facility, the AGE will make its triumphant return to Darling Harbour this year at the new Sydney ICC (International Convention Centre). The new […]
The National AHA executive has announced a big expansion to its work with the Federal Government’s PaTH program, aiming to help 10,000 young unemployed get a start in the workplace. In 2016 the eight AHA presidents met with Employment Minister Michaelia Cash and determined that the industry could commit to creating 5,000 temporary intern positions
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The reluctant hero publican of holiday town Marysville has put his prized pub to market, hoping to spend more time enjoying the town he helped rebuild. February 2009 saw the deadly Black Saturday* fires sweep through swathes of Victoria, devastating more than a dozen regions, including Kinglake-Marysville. Ashraf and Christine Doos have called Marysville home
Victoria will tomorrow join the rest of Australia, plunged into the toxic quagmire and noxious penalties arising from the ban on smoking in outdoor dining areas. Although it is a decade since the bans on indoor smoking came almost universally into Australian hospitality venues, Victoria has held out the longest in extending this move to
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Icon of the outback the Daly Waters Hotel, has been sold for an undisclosed amount that included the untold number of women’s bras and undies adorning the walls. The Daly Waters pub – as profiled in PubTIC magazine – is one of the legends of the red centre, located hundreds of miles from anywhere. The
Years after its closure, former guard Fady Taiba is suing Bar 333 and his employer, Prime Security, over injuries sustained in a coward punch by a drunken finance worker. On the evening of Friday, 6 September 2013, Taiba was working solo at the door of busy George Street venue Bar 333, and refused entry to
The so-called cowboy developers of Carlton’s historic Corkman Irish Pub have further distanced themselves from the mandated rebuild, now suing the planning minister over height limit. Stefce Kutlesovski and Raman Shaqiri purchased the 1858 pub two years ago for $4.76m, with ideas for a multi-storey development on the prominent corner at 160 Leicester Street, Carlton.
Australian company JBN Sound Solutions has become the solution for a $1m lawsuit against a nightclub in Austin for noise disturbance. Austin, Texas is dubbed the Live Music Capital of the World, and boasts an amazing array of performance venues in a city experiencing continued gentrification. Noise complaints have risen dramatically in recent years, increasing
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Victoria has capped numbers and tightened the regulations around poker machines, but much of the news is good for pub operators. The Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation Marlene Kairouz announced new arrangements aimed to help “limit gambling-related harm”, but also to give increased certainty to venues in Victoria. The changes will see
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Popular landmark the Quinninup Tavern went up in flames early Saturday morning, but it is not all over for the little pub that could. The Quinninup Tavern, known as The Quinny, was built in 1950 in the emerging logging town of Quinninup, around 300 kilometres south of Perth. Changing times saw the timber mill close
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