SYDNEY BEER WEEK – A PUBLICAN’S GUIDE: VIDEO
Sydney Beer Week 2017 will take place 20-29 October – bringing Sydney pubs, publicans and lovers of beer everything from experiential brews to singing pirates. Dave Phillips – beer guru and festival director of the re-named Sydney Beer Week (SBW)
JUST 11 DAYS TO GAMING EXPO 2017
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
PELATHON PARTS WITH OVERHAULED ORANA
After a top-to-bottom turnaround and just a year’s ownership, Pelathon has flipped its re-branded Orana Hotel in Lake Macquarie, ushering in new local veterans. Jaz Mooney’s Pelathon Pub Group (PPG) swooped on the receivership purchase of the flagging New Orana
JOBS PaTH WIN-WIN FOR HOSPITALITY AND UNEMPLOYED
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
DOOS LOOK TO BE DONE FOR IDYLLIC DUCK INN
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. [caption id="attachment_10552" align="alignright" width="273"] Marysville Hotel after the fire. Image: Facebook[/caption] February 2009 saw
BIG-TRADING TURVEY TAVERN TO ROCK REGIONAL MARKET
The large-format Turvey Tavern has come to market, boasting plenty of opportunity in one of NSW’s strongest regions and regional gaming LGAs. For the past two decades Wagga Wagga’s Turvey has been operated fully under management on behalf of an
SMOKING BANS & CONSEQUENCES HIT VICTORIA TOMORROW
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
BRAITHWAITE BOOLAROO PUB SALE A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS
Following plenty of interest and multiple written offers, Peter and Emma Braithwaite are off to tour the sub-continent as they pass the mantle of their beloved Commercial Hotel to industry newcomers. The Braithwaites listed their big corner pub in Boolaroo
GAMING ROOM MANAGER SEES JAIL SENTENCE FOR SWIPING TAKINGS
A gaming room employee of the Young Australian Hotel has been sentenced to nine months’ jail and ordered to repay $12,957 she stole over a period of nearly two years. 29-year-old mother of two Ashlee Walker appeared again last week
HAMMOND & CO REMAKE OF THE CLASSIC VICTORIA HOTEL
Anthony Hammond is taking his gastro-pub experience and reinventing Footscray’s tired Hart’s Hotel into an affordable family-focused local boozer. Hammond is one half of the team that created Fitzroy’s acclaimed Builder’s Arms Hotel, with its culinary masterpieces Moon Under Water