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The pub was known as the Day Dawn Hotel when, in December 1943, US troops on the way to Port Moresby stopped for the night in Ingham and drank the cellars dry.
The following day, sugarcane farmer and poet Dan Sheahan made the 30km horseback trip into town for a refreshment, only to be told the pub was out of the good stuff.
Publican Glenn Connell said it was time to move on.(Today)
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Glumly, Mr Sheahan ordered a glass of red, and sitting in the bar, was inspired by his doleful circumstances to write the poem that, years later, would become one of Slim Dusty s biggest hits.
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Four injured as fire destroys Tibooburra s historic Two Storey pub in NSW outback
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The Tibooburra Two Storey was engulfed in flames after a fire started in a shed behind it.
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Four people were injured in a large fire that destroyed Tibooburra s historic Two Storey hotel in outback New South Wales on Wednesday night.
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Two men who stepped in to fight the blaze were taken to Adelaide by the Royal Flying Doctor Service
One firefighter was taken to Broken Hill Hospital to be treated for cuts and burns
that Prime Minister Boris Johnson s government is considering a policy which would only allow pubs to reopen if they don t sell alcohol - an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus due to drunk people being less likely to follow social distancing rules.
The suggestion promptly caused an uproar among pub-starved Brits, who argued that a pub without alcohol is no longer a pub at all. Pubs with no alcohol? What is the point. Government control has gone way too far, protested Brexit icon and avid beer drinker Nigel Farage. Others compared a pub without alcohol to a fish and chip shop without chips, a clothing store without clothes, or a chemist without medicine.