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The true story behind Tooheys’ brewery blacksmith icon
LIKE Victoria’s Sam Knott, who proclaimed ‘I allus has wan at eleven’, NSW also had a famous brewery pin-up-boy by the name of Sam. He was well-known for most of the first half of last century. Although, there’s some debate… Read More ›
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Road Trip: Pubs of Western Australia’s South-West and Wheatbelt Country
By MICK ROBERTS © THROUGH wheatbelt country, to the rugged, but beautiful south-west and Margaret River regions of Western Australia, our February 2025 road trip provided an opportunity to visit a selection of fascinating pubs, explore their history, and discover… Read More ›
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Exploring the Legacy of Aloomba Hotel
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 ›
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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 ›
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Update on historic Brisbane landmark, the Lord Stanley Hotel and its $15m overhaul
ONE of Brisbane’s most cherished historical landmarks, the Lord Stanley Hotel, is currently undergoing a $15 million transformative refurbishment that promises to restore the grandeur of this iconic venue. Originally built in 1889-90 by Walter Samuel Smith and designed by… Read More ›
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Marion ‘Bill’ Edwards was Australia’s first known transgender barman
By MICK ROBERTS © Bill Edwards was said to be “a shade too handsome for a barman”. Although reportedly skilled, quick, and obliging, with a joke for his customers, the barman’s small hands and feminine features sometimes raised curiosity. However,… Read More ›
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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 ›
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The Bush Inn and its publican’s lonely death in the Queensland outback
By MICK ROBERTS © PUBLICAN Tim Lorigan’s epitaph, carved into his tombstone, reveals in straight forward terms the goldfield publican’s untimely death. It simply reads: “Died in the bush, Queensland”. The publican’s lonely demise in outback Queensland in 1892 must… Read More ›
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The war years at Jack Ahern’s Hamilton Hotel
By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN Jack Ahern took the reins of his first pub at Hamilton, in what is today an affluent riverside suburb in the City of Brisbane, he quickly put his stamp on the popular drinking hole. The Hamilton… Read More ›
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Hobart hotels ›
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Hobart’s Liverpool Street was ‘infested with prostitutes’ and pubs that were the ‘worst dens of infamy’
June 11, 2023
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Hobart’s hoteliers founded Australia’s first industry advocacy group
June 7, 2023
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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
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Pugnacious publican
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Early pubs of Hobart: The romance of Tasmania’s hostelries
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Publican painter
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Darwin hotels ›
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Publican unlucky in love: Wealthy hotelier murdered by cheating wife
January 14, 2024
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Darwin’s ravenous termites devoured 80 barrels of beer
May 20, 2023
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Hotel Darwin
August 17, 2017
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The 1948 crocodile encounter at 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
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Perth Hotels ›
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Perth’s old and new Imperials
February 12, 2026
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Road Trip: Pubs of Western Australia’s South-West and Wheatbelt Country
May 18, 2025
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Bushrangers and desperadoes gathered at the Mahogany Creek inn
April 3, 2024
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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: A history of the Woodbridge Hotel
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
Melbourne Hotels ›
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Marion ‘Bill’ Edwards was Australia’s first known transgender barman
October 10, 2024
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Melbourne’s Apollo Inn traded for over eight decades
June 1, 2023
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Olive’s three ‘petticoat pubs’ were run entirely by women
October 4, 2021
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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
Sydney hotels ›
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History of The Whalers Arms Pubs in Sydney
April 25, 2026
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History of Parramatta’s Oldest Pub: The Rose and Crown
April 14, 2026
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Discover the Keighery Hotel: A Piece of Sydney’s History
April 8, 2026
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Crown Hotel gas explosion killed Surry Hills’ newspaper vendor
January 14, 2026
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The mystery of E. Wells: A HMAS Sydney survivor?
September 19, 2025
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Opening of Granville’s Vauxhall Inn was celebrated with ‘buckets of rum’
December 1, 2023
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Identity of man found dead at North Sydney hotel remains mystery almost 60 years later
August 2, 2023
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Surry Hills’ notorious bloodhouse, the Sunbeam Hotel
August 1, 2023
Adelaide hotels ›
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Fred Klauer, musician, digger, raconteur and publican
January 1, 2026
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Adelaide pub drinkers’ response to plastic bib proposal – 1954
September 10, 2024
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Early inns and taverns of Adelaide and South Australia
January 20, 2024
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Mine’s a ‘Lady Blamey’: Beer served-up in cut-off beer bottles
September 15, 2023
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Against all odds: Despite an abusive husband, hotelier Margaret Radestock became a successful business woman
February 17, 2023
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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
Brisbane hotels ›
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The Tragic Tale of Brisbane Publican Ann Witham and the Dunmore Arms
May 22, 2026
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Update on historic Brisbane landmark, the Lord Stanley Hotel and its $15m overhaul
November 28, 2024
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The war years at Jack Ahern’s Hamilton Hotel
April 14, 2024
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Queensland hotels of long ago
November 4, 2023
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Wealthy Brisbane publican died penniless after she was hit by a tram
December 25, 2021
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Blackbirder established the Queen’s Hotel on the Brisbane River wharves
December 5, 2021
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Royal Hotel, Queen Street, Brisbane: 1862-1970
May 31, 2020
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Drinkers join the Salvos in Christmas carols outside South Brisbane pub
December 24, 2019