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Melbourne’s historic Mitre Tavern has served-up beer for over 150 years
YOU could be forgiven for thinking you are looking at an old English inn, and not an inner-city Melbourne pub when first setting eyes on the Mitre Tavern. Melbourne City Council documents it as its oldest building. Less than five… Read More ›
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Pub compliance crackdown this Australia Day
Liquor & Gaming NSW inspectors will be active over the Australia Day weekend to check venues are complying with liquor laws and COVID public health orders. Liquor & Gaming NSW Director of Compliance, Dimitri Argeres, said inspectors will be out targeting… Read More ›
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Road Trip: The pubs of far north Queensland’s back country
By MICK ROBERTS © THEY’RE a hardy bunch, those who call far north Queensland’s back country home. They have to be. It’s harsh country, as we discovered on our road trip to Chillagoe, 200km west of Cairns, late in 2020…. Read More ›
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Two men killed and pubs destroyed during 1934 Kalgoorlie racial riots
AN outbreak of disorder and violence occurred in the Western Australian goldfield towns of Boulder and Kalgoorlie as a sequel to the death of an Australian born man after a quarrel with an Italian in January 1934. The mob looted… Read More ›
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Constables caught-out having after-hour New Year’s Eve drinks at Erskineville’s Imperial Hotel
FOUR Sydney police constables were caught-out on New Year’s Eve 1930 when they called into an Erskineville pub for after hours’ celebratory drinks with the publican. Constables Robert Ramsay, Alfred Costello, William Mowbray and William Grover were each fined 10… Read More ›
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Study finds despite Covid-19 pub restrictions, Aussies did not “get on the beer” at home during lockdowns
NEW research has revealed Australians did not “get on the beers” at home during the nation’s COVID-19 lockdowns despite the closure of licensed venues. On-premises alcohol consumption was prohibited in Australia in March following the closure of pubs, clubs, restaurants,… Read More ›
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Mayor redeveloped Ballina theatre into the Australian Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © THE tamed applause from opera at a Ballina theatre, was replaced with the raucous shouting, laughter, and bawdy tunes of a pub in 1895. Where Gilbert and Sullivan’s lolanthe had entertained from the stage, beer suddenly… Read More ›
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How a thatched tavern in Adelaide’s south-west doubled as a church: The Brighton Metro Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © A RESOURCEFUL woman, who outlived two publican husbands, Margaret Leahy made a few ‘firsts’ during her life as a South Australian hotelier. At the helm of one of the state’s oldest trading pubs, she was one of… Read More ›
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Condobolin’s Royal Hotel has been serving up cold beers since 1886
THE magnificent art-deco Royal Hotel at Condobolin was nearly lost earlier in the year when it was closed for business. David Price, who has been licensee of the Royal since mid 2018, had different ideas though. He had been managing… Read More ›
Featured Categories
Hobart hotels ›
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Beer drums on trial
August 26, 2019
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The pubs and brothels of Hobart’s Watchorn Street
June 17, 2019
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Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart
August 17, 2017
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Pugnacious publican
February 25, 2017
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Early pubs of Hobart: The romance of Tasmania’s hostelries
June 11, 2016
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Publican painter
May 4, 2015
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Old Hotel Being Demolished
January 1, 2015
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The Ship Inn, Hobart, Tasmania
November 15, 2014
Darwin hotels ›
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Hotel Darwin
August 17, 2017
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Taxi driver bitten by crocodile in the bar of the Hotel Darwin
March 15, 2017
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Darwin beer supply white-anted
March 9, 2017
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The Vic survived three cyclones…
December 24, 2016
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Darwin hotel explosion
October 19, 2016
Perth Hotels ›
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Policeman shot dead in bar of Perth’s Brisbane Hotel
August 1, 2020
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Perth publican ‘Old Penn’ was a colourful character
June 7, 2020
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Three Western Australian publicans from the past
March 28, 2020
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Zandra the pub nude made Chloe look like ‘an elderly spinster in a red flannel negligee’
March 9, 2020
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Perth newspaper vendor, Jimmy could make beer run up hill
January 14, 2020
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The Battle for Beer
December 18, 2019
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Perth’s SP bookies were not only blokes
August 31, 2019
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Boxing champ behind the bar
August 4, 2019
Melbourne Hotels ›
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Melbourne’s historic Mitre Tavern has served-up beer for over 150 years
January 29, 2021
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Carlton’s United States Hotel publican charged with murder after shooting dead an intruder
September 3, 2020
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The flash bars of Melbourne’s Royal Mail Hotel
February 29, 2020
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Melbourne hotelier, Jimmy Richardson
November 12, 2019
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Naked woman takes a dip in pub’s water trough
August 18, 2019
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They learnt Australian ways
June 30, 2019
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Flinders Street Angel Retires
April 14, 2019
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Pluto arrives in Melbourne
March 11, 2019
Sydney hotels ›
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Bondi cab driver’s brilliant method of lubricating his Sunday social club
April 29, 2021
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Cornish builder responsible for Sydney’s Centennial Hall and St Mary’s Cathedral, also constructed and hosted Woolloomooloo’s Merryfield Hotel
March 9, 2021
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Paddy Larkin’s pub at Sydney Central Station
March 7, 2021
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Feature pub: Agincourt Hotel, Broadway Sydney
March 3, 2021
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The General Gordon’s back! The Pride of Sydenham rises from the ashes
February 26, 2021
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Feature pub: AB Hotel (Ancient Briton) Hotel, Glebe, NSW
February 20, 2021
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Tragic death of the founder of Prospect’s Royal Cricketers’ Arms
February 12, 2021
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Constables caught-out having after-hour New Year’s Eve drinks at Erskineville’s Imperial Hotel
December 31, 2020
Adelaide hotels ›
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How a thatched tavern in Adelaide’s south-west doubled as a church: The Brighton Metro Hotel
November 16, 2020
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Adelaide’s last barmaid: When women were barred from behind the bar
December 31, 2019
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Commercial Hotel is Port Adelaide’s oldest licensed pub
June 5, 2019
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Rebel Irish flag at Adelaide hotel
March 14, 2019
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Golfers tee-off with milk and rum before making a strategic beer break
October 6, 2018
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Walter sat at the same table in Adelaide’s Exchange Hotel for 42 years
August 7, 2018
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Car runs into the bar of Adelaide’s Selborne Hotel
November 9, 2017
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Southern Cross Hotel, Adelaide
October 8, 2017
Brisbane hotels ›
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Royal Hotel, Brisbane
May 31, 2020
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Drinkers join the Salvos in Christmas carols outside South Brisbane pub
December 24, 2019
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The Treasury Hotel, Brisbane
November 19, 2019
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Hen gets ‘clucky’ on beer
July 23, 2019
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Publican, Rose Rooney: Sydney’s Diamond Queen
June 4, 2019
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Treasury Hotel, Brisbane
April 15, 2019
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Telling the ‘Yanks’ about us
April 12, 2019
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Free beer marked the opening of Brisbane’s Crown Hotel in 1854
December 26, 2018