The pubs of Port Douglas and Mossman By MICK ROBERTS © WHEN the mill is open, pub business booms in the sugar cane town of Mossman. We spoke with two publicans and a few local drinkers as part of our… Read More ›
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Road Trip: Far North Queensland, Part 2
The disappearing pubs of Gordonvale By MICK ROBERTS © SITTING at the end of the bar on his usual stool, ‘Pop’ gave me a cautious glance when I walked into the Great Northern Hotel at Gordonvale and started up a… Read More ›
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Road Trip: Far North Queensland, Part 1
By MICK ROBERTS © The pubs of Cairns City, Stratford, Redlynch and Edmonton CAIRNS’ pub culture has changed considerably since the mid 1980s when I first ventured to the far northern Queensland city as a young man. The crowded bars,… Read More ›
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Lani’s left handed pub
Observer Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney WHEN I drop into the Observer Hotel at Sydney’s Rocks, I like to drink a schooner of beer using my left hand. The gesture is in memory of a left-handed drag-queen who performed in the… Read More ›
