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Five-star hotel to ease room crisis

General Manager Bernard Teo inside a model of the proposed new hotel. Picture: Astrid Volzke/The West Australian   Perth’s newest five-star hotel...

Smaller bakeries rise as famous names feel the squeeze

The artisans are taking over … bakers at Brasserie Bread at Banksmeadow show how to make the popular sourdough that Sydney fans are happy to queue...

Price of a cup of coffee causes pain to hip pocket

Bleary eyed and desperate for a caffeine hit this morning? Be careful which cafe threshold you stumble across - or your wallet might take a pounding. You...

Rooms for improvement in the hotel business

There are more than 200,000 hotels in the world - and too many of those are failing to give business travellers what they want. That global hotel tally...

Palmer unveils Sunshine Coast resort designs

A concept design for the redevelopment of the resort at Coolum.   Concept designs for the redevelopment of billionaire businessman Clive Palmer's Sunshine...

From the farm to facebook

Red meat producers across Australia are Tweeting while mustering, uploading YouTube videos from the cattle yards and blogging about life on the land, and User-driven...

Catering company’s treatment of female employee breached discrimination laws

A catering company discriminated against a female employee at Shepparton in regional Victoria because of her pregnancy, the Fair Work Ombudsman has found. Holtham...

Metcash closing in on three pubs

Australian Liquor Marketers (ALM) owner, Metcash, confirmed its move into the hotel sector yesterday as the details of its initial pub transactions began...

Cruel delicacy: shark fin trade sees Pacific stocks collapse

Every year tens of millions of sharks are slaughtered solely for their fins. Growing demand for shark fin soup has led to the massive surge in the trade...

Publican calls for end to NT grog restrictions

The licensee of a pub that has been banned from selling takeaway alcohol in the morning has called for the Federal Government to lift drinking restrictions...