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Brisbane City Council issues 445 infringements to businesses for breaching food safety standards and collects more than half a million in fines

DEAD rats, cockroaches and food hanging over kitchen sinks are just some of the disgusting finds by Brisbane City Council food inspectors in recent years. The...

Food trucks set to be squeezed from squares

ADELAIDE | Food trucks would be effectively excluded from all city squares, bar one, under an Adelaide City Council proposal to be voted on tonight. A...

Extended Mackay nightclub trading hours worry campaigners against alcohol-fuelled violence

Campaigners against alcohol-fuelled violence say they are puzzled by the approval of an application to extend trading hours for three Mackay nightclubs...

The Forager: Adelaide’s ‘best’ small bar

THE FORAGER | In this week’s column: Award-winning hotels and small venues, one of world’s best restaurants relocates to Australia, new places to...

Dogs maul pet animals to death at cafe 2773 in Blue Mountains

Two dogs have raided an animal pen at a popular cafe and restaurant in the lower Blue Mountains and mauled a number of farmyard pets to death. Barney the...

Celebrity chef Neil Perry launches online petition to save Victorian beef farm

Celebrity chef Neil Perry has launched an online petition to get the Victorian Government to intervene after an award-winning beef farmer is refused a...

Permit refusal could spell the end for Wagyu beef pioneer David Blackmore

A LEADING Victorian beef producer is contemplating exiting the industry after he was denied an application for "intensive beef production" operation. David...

Qantas has five dishes its customers won't let them take off the menu

For nearly 20 years, Australia’s national airline, Qantas has worked with chef Neil Perry of Rockpool fame to design the menus for its first and business...

Council’s objection ignored in bars' hours changes

MACKAY Regional Council objected to an application for extending trading hours in Mackay from 4am to 5am, but it was approved anyway. In an advertisement...

Political donations: Second pokie lobby tips $45,000 into Kevin Andrews-linked fund

A second pro-pokie machine lobby group tipped tens of thousand of dollars into a fund-raising body that supports Abbott government frontbencher Kevin Andrews...