The Wentworth Hotel is one of the most profitable pubs for pokie takings in NSW, but the gaming regulator has found that it was failing to comply with gaming regulation.
The Coolalinga Tavern in Darwin held six Babes on Bulls events where patrons climbed on a mechanical bull and took their clothes, despite repeated requests from authorities to stop.
The proposed liquor outlet would have been in close proximity to three Indigenous dry communities.
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Controversial plans to build a Dan Murphy’s megastore near Darwin Airport have been scrapped, parent company Woolworths Group announced today.
Indigenous groups have been protesting against the plans for nearly six years. Today’s win came after Woolies’ Endeavour Group was found by an independent panel to have not consulted stakeholders sufficiently enough.
“The Gilbert Review has made it clear that we did not do enough in this community to live up to the best practice engagement to which we hold ourselves accountable,” Woolworths Group Chairman, Gordon Cairns said in a statement.
Barkly region faces new grog laws as Liquor Commission bids to reduce alcohol-related harm
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The commission says there is rising alcohol consumption in the region.
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People in the Barkly region in the remote Northern Territory will need to provide ID to buy a drink at the pub under proposed changes to the region s alcohol policies.
Key points:
The measures include limiting takeaway alcohol purchases to three transactions per household per day
Stakeholders have four weeks to comment on the proposals
The measure is among a handful of recommendations made by the Northern Territory Liquor Commission following a two-year review intended to reduce alcohol-related harm in the area.