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Penalty rate decision in Federal Court

Unions have taken the Fair Work Commission’s decision to cut Sunday penalty rates to the Federal Court. Unions representing hospitality, retail and...

Meriton and Deliveroo strike deal

Meriton, Australia’s largest owner-operator of hotel apartments, has struck a deal with Deliveroo. The deal with the on-demand food delivery service...

Sydney restaurant serves steak with maggots

A Sydney diner was horrified after finding she was served steak in a restaurant crawling with live maggots. Sheila Kim was taken aback by the steak when...

Longrain comes to Tokyo

Sydney Thai restaurant Longrain has extended itself beyond the city. It has set up operations in Ebisu, one of Tokyo’s most respected culinary suburbs. Owner...

Small changes to booze laws

And so Sydney’s booze laws were further relaxed over the weekend. Basically the rules have been changed so that liqueur and whiskey connoisseurs won’t...

Osbourne Hotel re-opens in Fortitude Valley

The former site of Fringe Bar and Kerbside on Ann St in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley is being transformed, converted into a new venue, The Osbourne Hotel. The...

Ritz-Carlton to open in Sydney

Ritz-Carlton is coming back to Australia. US hotel giant Marriott International has just signed a deal with a developer to reintroduce the luxury Ritz-Carlton...

Chin Chin restaurant opens in Sydney

Melbourne restaurateur Chris Lucas is bringing a bit of Melbourne to Sydney with Chin Chin, his acclaimed Flinders Lane eatery. Over the coming week,...

Syrian billionaire invests in Port Douglas

Dubai-based Syrian billionaire Ghassan Aboud has snapped up the Reef Marina at Port Douglas and now plans to invest $100 million  into a new hotel and...

Hotel Palisade sold for $30 million

The hotel property boom continues with an investment firm buying the Hotel Palisade in Sydney’s Millers Point for $31.5 million. First Master Capital...