OLGR

LICENCE BREACHES INCREASE AMID RISK-BASED FEES

Posted on August 17th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming & Racing issues around 1,000 compliance breaches each year, costing pubs around half a million dollars. Statistics obtained through Freedom of Information show OLGR issued 4,348 non-compliance breach notices in 2011-2014, totalling over $2.4

14 DAYS FOR IMPERIAL OWNER TO DEFEND AGAINST CLOSURE

Posted on July 29th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Bricks and mortar owner of Erskineville’s troubled Imperial Hotel has been granted a two-week extension to explain why the venue shouldn’t close for up to six months. Provisional lessees Spice Group have recently seen the mire of the Office of

NO BUTTS – STRICT NEW SMOKING LAWS BEGIN TODAY

Posted on July 6th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The noose around smokers’ rights has tightened a little more, with the latest bout of smoking restrictions coming into effect today in NSW. Potentially the kind of logistical problem as the indoor smoking ban that took effect in July 2007,

LICENSEE PENALISED FOR STRING OF OFFENCES

Posted on July 1st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A Port Macquarie licensee has copped fines and disqualification for ‘unacceptable’ behaviour. Monique Louise Turner, licensee of the Settlers Inn Hotel, pleaded guilty in Port Macquarie Local Court to seven offences under gaming and liquor laws. She was disqualified from

LIQUOR STORE CLOSING TIME LAWS UNDER REVIEW

Posted on June 29th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The OLGR has undertaken to perform a comprehensive review of the benefits and impacts of the forced 10pm bottleshop closure law, to the relief of industry and warning cries from anti-liquor advocates. The NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming & Racing

THE OAKS SLIPS ONTO VIOLENT VENUES LIST

Posted on June 1st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
One of Sydney’s most beloved pubs has found itself on the list of violent venues, after recent successes have brought about consequences. Neutral Bay’s The Oaks underwent a critically acclaimed renovation in 2013 that introduced a number of new fronts

“QUIET” PUB SUSPENDED FOR UNDER-AGE BREACH

Posted on June 1st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The New South Wales Government’s crack-down on under-age drinking has netted its first victim, with a Riverina hotel receiving a licence suspension. New laws concerning the supply of alcohol to minors came into effect last December, and the OLGR has

VIOLENCE DOWN IN VENUES – UP AT HOME

Posted on May 29th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The latest OLGR figures show the continued real drop of violent incidents in NSW licensed venues, but the true causes remain undetermined and shrouded in politics. The regulator generally trumpeted the effects of its own efforts in reducing the number

LIFE BANS FOR ROGUE OPERATORS

Posted on May 18th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Two former Kings Cross operators have received life bans from holding liquor licences in the “toughest sanctions ever imposed” by the ILGA. Licensee John Barakat and manager Dominic Kaikaty faced a special application by the Office of Liquor Gaming &

LICENSEE FINED AND CONVICTED FOR LOCKOUT BREACH

Posted on April 1st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The OLGR reports a Sydney publican had a conviction recorded and strike against his venue due to his “specific” involvement in a lockout breach. Licensee of the Hotel Chambers, Chady Khouzame, pleaded guilty in Downing Centre Local Court last Wednesday