AVC’s Middle Park Hotel is moving up, hurdling a protracted battle with locals in VCAT for expansion and a rooftop terrace in the ‘quaint’ central Melbourne precinct. National pub operator Australian Venue Co looked to undertake one of its signature refurbishments on the 134-year-old heritage-listed hotel. The redevelopment application looked to add bar and dining […]
The Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) has put gaming machine applications on hold, pending the outcome of a successful challenge by a hotelier in the Supreme Court that throws doubt on conditions placed on gaming rooms. Jim Knox’s pubs the Area Hotel in Griffith, purchased in 2019, and Whitebull Hotel in Armidale, bought mid-2021,
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A family-owned business in Cairns has lodged a claim in the Supreme Court against the Reef Hotel and Westpac, for millions lost by a staff member who embezzled the money. Former employee of Down to Earth Demolitions, 59-year-old Wendy Ann Aspinall, pleaded guilty to defrauding the company of $3.16 million between 2007 and 2017. She
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The Supreme Court in South Australia has ordered directors of Bloody Mary Group to pay partners over $380,000 after they pocketed lucrative rebate deals with major brewers. In 2016 business partners Brett Viney and Matthew Mitchell bought the Windmill Hotel for around $1.4 million in a venture with father and son Michael and Nicholas Crouch.
The McGuire Hotels family fortune has been on show courtesy of a Supreme Court case, appealing to extend a family trust an additional 25 years as new generations enter the vast and expanding business. Patriarch and former policeman in Ireland, James McGuire, took on his first pub in Brisbane in the 1880s. The McGuire Hotels
Some semblance of order has been restored at the head office of ILG, with a Supreme Court ruling returning power to the ousted board members ahead of what will be a dramatic AGM on Monday. A growing divide between four of the nine directors of the co-op came to a head this week when a
Iconic Perth pub Raffles has won a long-standing battle with a rich neighbour over noise levels, with the Supreme Court dismissing a claim that would have placed heavy restrictions on the popular venue. Mining entrepreneur Derek Ammon purchased a luxury apartment above Raffle Hotel’s beer garden in 2009, paying $2.7 million. He says that since
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The Supreme Court has overturned a ruling by ILGA on reducing the trading hours at the Sydney Junction Hotel, sending the Commissioner’s request to do so back for reconsideration. Following an increase in the incident count at the Sydney Junction (SJH), police petitioned the Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) to revoke the Hotel’s late
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Premier Baird is standing firm one of his decisions, to ban the greyhound industry in NSW, despite mounting party pressure and the loss of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions. In July Premier Mike Baird and state National leader Troy Grant announced plans to shut down the greyhound industry, based on a report by
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In response to the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn the application of ‘lockout’ laws on some Sydney venues, the review into the policies by Hon. Ian Callinan AC has been delayed. The Independent Liquor Law Review announced the granting of an extension of “less than two weeks” following a formal request, while Callinan examines further
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