By MICK ROBERTS © UPDATE June 2025: We are saddened to learn of the passing of publican, Maxine Dragojlo at the age of 69 in June 2025. Our condolences to husband, Peter and family. UPDATE April 2026: After almost 38… Read More ›
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Exploring Australia’s Oldest Pubs: The 200 Club
WE realise Australia’s pubs have nothing on our British counterparts when it comes to age. However, the debate on Australia’s oldest pub never seems to end. While the discussion rages over Australia’s ‘longest continuously licensed’, ‘oldest pub building’ and the… Read More ›
Ned Kelly and the Glenrowan Inn continues to be our overall top story
NED Kelly continues to fascinate our readers. The story of the Australian bushranger’s association with the Glenrowan Inn is our most popular story on the Time Gents website. We wind up another successful year with a look at our overall… Read More ›
Adelaide pub drinkers’ response to plastic bib proposal – 1954
By MICK ROBERTS © A REPORTER braved the bars of South Australia’s capital to gauge the reaction from drinkers on a radical idea of providing ‘bibs’ to pub goers in 1954. The Adelaide News snapped Lionel Rogers (left) and Harry… Read More ›
Bushrangers and desperadoes gathered at the Mahogany Creek inn
By MICK ROBERTS © FOR just over 40 years, bushrangers and desperadoes sheltered under the first incarnation of Mahogany Creek inn’s roof. There they gathered, drinking and yarning around its taproom fire place, joining with stockmen, timber-getters, bullockies, and more… Read More ›
Publican unlucky in love: Wealthy hotelier murdered by cheating wife
By MICK ROBERTS © PUBLICAN Roy Ferguson could be said to have been unlucky in love. The wealthy hotelier had at least three failed relationships with women who would eventually betray him – one fatally. Roy was no saint. In… Read More ›
Beaches Hotel opened as Thirroul Rex 70 years ago
WHEN Thirroul’s Rex Hotel opened for business in 1953, it brought to a close a campaign lasting almost 30 years by brewery giant, Tooth and Company, to have a pub in the seaside town. Known today as ‘Beaches’, the pub,… Read More ›
Historic Mount Garnet pub calls last drinks
By MICK ROBERTS © THE Mount Garnet Hotel, located 163km south-west of Cairns, has called last drinks. Sadly the historic pub – the town’s last – will close on October 29 2023. The Mount Garnet Hotel posted to its Facebook… Read More ›
Mine’s a ‘Lady Blamey’: Beer served-up in cut-off beer bottles
By MICK ROBERTS © WALKING the mine-field of the various names of beer glass-sizes in Australia can be tricky – especially when you’re from inter-state. There’s the butcher, the handle, a pot, middy, and, of course, the schooner. While many… Read More ›
Legendary outback publican: Hermann Schmidt
By MICK ROBERTS © THERE are some publicans who truly earn a legendary status. As a bush publican, shearer, colt-breaker, mail coach driver, boundary rider, noted athlete, scalper, and successful racehorse owner and trainer, Hermann Schmidt, was one of those… Read More ›