A pub in the Sydney CBD has been fined, having been found to have breached the Gaming Machines Regulation 2019 through its placement of an ATM. Liquor & Gaming NSW (L&G) broached the matter of VBar providing an ATM, in a room that was adjacent to its gaming room but which has a sign on […]
Popular entertainment venue the Family Hotel has successfully fended off noise complaints by locals claiming residences had become ‘unliveable’. The pub, on Hunter St in the Newcastle CBD, was formerly called the Silk Hotel and has long been known for guest DJs, open mic nights and live bands. It trades to midnight Monday to Saturday,
The licensee of Assembly Bar in the Sydney CBD has received a strike, for allowing a patron to become so intoxicated she needed medical attention. The NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) issued what was the first strike to licensee Jeremy Nicholas King, under the NSW Government’s Three Strikes disciplinary scheme. It is reported
ILGA has announced the conviction of the former operator of Kings Cross’ Dollhouse, and disciplinary hearing against two ALH pubs over serious gaming breaches. In March, the regulators handed down a lifetime ban to Ulysses Flevotomos for activities at Potts Point strip club Dollhouse, the NSW Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) chair Philip Crawford
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An internal investigation mandated by Woolworths senior management regarding ALH gaming practices has already prompted dismissals, and is key to ongoing investigations by regulators in three states. Earlier this year accusations emerged through the office of Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie that the 75 per cent Woolworths-owned ALH was engaging in questionable acts to try
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The Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority appears set to bow to the vocal minority and change very little of the influential and oft-lauded ‘Newcastle solution’ trade restrictions. Approaching a decade since inception, the Australian Hotels Association (AHA NSW) made a timely request to ILGA to consider the ongoing relevance of the restrictions placed on the
UPDATE: A former operator of Replay karaoke bar has been slapped with some of the “heaviest sanctions imposed for liquor licence breaches in recent years” for major infractions around sale of alcohol and trading hours. An investigation by undercover inspectors of Liquor & Gaming NSW in April last year observed “blatant disregard” for RSA obligations,
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The new NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) has flexed its muscle, yesterday overturning a ruling by ILGA on a key decision on transfer of a hotel licence. General liquor licensing and gaming matters in NSW are put to Liquor & Gaming NSW (L&G), while more serious issues such as new licences and significant gaming
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The Victorian and Queensland licensing regulators have announced favourable late-trading conditions for New Year’s Eve for pubs. The November VCGLR bulletin heralded automatic trading extension for willing venues, in recognition of the special circumstances of NYE. This involves an extension to 1am for hotel licences trading until midnight, and until 3am for late-trading licences. The
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The Department of Public Prosecutions has won its appeal for a conviction on the Steyne Hotel, sparing the perpetrators while adding to the pub’s penalties. Arthur Laundy and a group of investors including John Singleton purchased the notorious Steyne in mid-2010. At the time, it was near the top of the NSW list of violent
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