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ABC News
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Here's where Hottest 100 listening parties are happening near you!
Gearing up for the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs and looking for somewhere to tune in on the day? No stress, we've got a whole list of public listening parties for you to pick from! Whether you wanna hunker down at the local pub, knock the froth off on a rooftop bar or mix the countdown with some barefoot bowls, there's something for everyone right around the country (and across the pond!). Check out all the places that will be airing the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs live, loud and local to you from 10am AEST on Saturday. NSW Ashfield Bowling Club - Ashfield Ashfield Bowling Club - Ashfield Australian Hotel - Ballina Australian Hotel - Ballina Beach Hotel - Byron Bay Beach Hotel - Byron Bay Bernie's Bar - Newcastle Bernie's Bar - Newcastle Big Little Brewing - Gosford Big Little Brewing - Gosford Breakwall Brewing - Narooma Breakwall Brewing - Narooma Crowbar - Leichardt Crowbar - Leichardt Darling Nikki's - St Peters Darling Nikki's - St Peters Devil's Hollow Brewery - Dubbo Devil's Hollow Brewery - Dubbo East Village Hotel - Darlinghurst East Village Hotel - Darlinghurst Edgeworth Tavern - Edgeworth Edgeworth Tavern - Edgeworth Finnians Tavern - Port Macqaurie Finnians Tavern - Port Macqaurie Great Southern Hotel - Berry Great Southern Hotel - Berry Hoey Moey - Coffs Harbour Hoey Moey - Coffs Harbour Harp Hotel - Wollongong Harp Hotel - Wollongong Kahibah Sports Club - Kahibah Kahibah Sports Club - Kahibah La La La's - Wollongong La La La's - Wollongong Lowlands Bowling Club - Cooks Hill Lowlands Bowling Club - Cooks Hill Mogul Beer - Northern Beaches Mogul Beer - Northern Beaches Mumbo Jumbos - Terrigal Mumbo Jumbos - Terrigal North Gong Hotel - Wollongong North Gong Hotel - Wollongong Public House Petersham Public House Petersham Resin - Bulli Resin - Bulli TapHouse Sydney - Darlinghurst TapHouse Sydney - Darlinghurst Tilly's - Wagga Wagga Tilly's - Wagga Wagga The Barley - Enmore The Barley - Enmore The Chippo Hotel - Chippendale The Chippo Hotel - Chippendale The Green Roof Hotel - Hamilton The Green Roof Hotel - Hamilton The Hamilton Station Hotel - Islington The Hamilton Station Hotel - Islington The Marlborough Hotel - Newtown The Marlborough Hotel - Newtown The Bowlo - Bangalow The Bowlo - Bangalow Unexpected Guest Distillery - Marrickville VIC The Catfish - Fitzroy The Catfish - Fitzroy Dive Bar - Geelong Dive Bar - Geelong Frankston Brewhouse - Frankston Frankston Brewhouse - Frankston Hotel Esplanade - St Kilda Hotel Esplanade - St Kilda Melbourne Bowls Club - Windsor Melbourne Bowls Club - Windsor Royal Hotel - Benalla Royal Hotel - Benalla Statford Courthouse Theatre - Stratford Statford Courthouse Theatre - Stratford The Grand Hotel Warrandyte - Warrandyte The Grand Hotel Warrandyte - Warrandyte The McIvor Pub - Kennington The McIvor Pub - Kennington The Penny Black - Brunswick The Penny Black - Brunswick The Vic Hotel - Footscray QLD Brook Hotel - Mitchelton Brook Hotel - Mitchelton Buddy Brewing - Burpengary Buddy Brewing - Burpengary Eaton Hills Hotel - Eaton Hills Eaton Hills Hotel - Eaton Hills Gladstone Yacht Club - Gladstone Gladstone Yacht Club - Gladstone Helio's Brewing Company - Yeerongpilly Helio's Brewing Company - Yeerongpilly Summa House - Fortitude Valley Summa House - Fortitude Valley The Bardon Bowls Club - Bardon The Bardon Bowls Club - Bardon The Station SC - Birtinya The Station SC - Birtinya The Sunset Shack - Nobby's Beach The Sunset Shack - Nobby's Beach Windsor Bowls Club - Windsor ACT Capital Brewing - Fishwyck Capital Brewing - Fishwyck UC Hub - Bruce UC Hub - Bruce The Pedlar - Campbell SA Gilbert Street Hotel - Adelaide Gilbert Street Hotel - Adelaide Port Burger - Port Noarlunga Port Burger - Port Noarlunga Tower Hotel - Magill WA Mount Lawley Football Club - Mount Lawley Mount Lawley Football Club - Mount Lawley Rosemount Hotel - Perth NT One Mile Brewery and Distillery - Winnellie TAS Botanica Bar - Salamanca Botanica Bar - Salamanca The Stables - Miandetta OVERSEAS Old Mates Pub - New York US Old Mates Pub - New York US Falcon - Clapham North UK
Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood: The darkly comic despair of the foreign correspondent
This novel doesn't need the old-fashioned disclaimer that any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental, because plainly it isn't. Like her heroine, Sara Byrne, author Phoebe Greenwood was a freelance newspaper correspondent on the Middle East. Sara manages to find a job in Gaza and gets to stay at the one decent place, the Beach Hotel. It represents the Al Deira, destroyed by Israeli forces last year, to which the book is dedicated. 'Much like rich Turks, American network crews like nice hotels,' she writes. 'They like airy, sea-fronting suites and restaurants with uniformed waiters where they can eat French fries and safely watch the war raging in the street and skies outside on big TV screens.' That is what the novel, Greenwood's debut, mercilessly depicts — the world of the foreign correspondent. We meet the all-important fixers, the locals who make good money out of providing the hacks with contacts and interviews. Sara launches forays accompanied by fixer Nasser, who regards her with disdain and pity. But he does set up decent interviews, like one with the director of the emergency unit at the hospital who observes: 'I would like to ease their pain, but we're running out of anaesthetic and even basic painkillers.' No fiction there. After a bombing outside the hospital, Sara sees a body: 'It came out backwards, very close to my face, one flip-flop dangling from a dusty foot, skinny and bloody but intact. It was the face that was missing.' But she's under pressure to outperform the competition. And Sara's judgment isn't what it was once. She is also an unattractive character, physically and morally, even among a cohort of unattractive journalists. When she courts disaster and it engulfs others, she has nothing to offer. 'You come, you watch us die, you watch us grieve … you take our stories, you go home,' a bereaved mother tells her. This sobering, blackly humorous and acutely observed book is based on events more than a decade ago. The depressing thing is that nothing much has changed. Melanie McDonagh is a columnist for The London Standard Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood is out now (Europa Editions, £16.99)
Courier-Mail
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
Margot Robbie's secret Aussie farm stay for sale
A stunning rustic retreat frequented by Hollywood star Margot Robbie has hit the market with a $4.9m asking price. The Barbie star has visited the secluded acreage property several times over the past year, it can be revealed. Known as The Orchard, the 2.99ha holding is set amid rainforest in the picturesque Tallebudgera Valley on the Gold Coast – not far from where the 34-year-old actor spent her childhood. The property at 149 Petsch Creek Rd, which had operated as a short-term holiday rental, is marketed by Coastal agent, Ed Cherry. Owner Chris Lang purchased the estate in April last year, but is selling up to pursue another opportunity with wife Chloe, who operates popular eateries, Tarte Bakery and Beach House. Mr Cherry said a creek ran through the property, which was surrounded on three sides by national park, forming a 'private oasis'. 'This is a very special place and it's been Margot's retreat. She stays in the guest accommodation when she is here,' he said. 'It feels likes a slice of the Byron Hinterland paradise but in the middle of the Gold Coast, where you have privacy but also proximity. 'And the property itself is like an island with 500m of creek frontage, so you cross a concrete bridge over the water when you enter.' MORE NEWS Byron Bay's Beach Hotel sold for $140m Real estate playboy spills on Aussie market Private club: Aussie stranger swap exposed The main residence is a renovated modern farmhouse combining contemporary comfort and country charm, with features including timber floors, panelled walls, and French doors. Three bedrooms and three bathrooms are set over two levels, anchored by open-plan living spaces and a beautiful kitchen with a butler's pantry and servery window opening onto wraparound decking. A shed has been converted into guest accommodation or a separate entertainment space, complete with a bar, wood heater, and freestanding tub. Other features include a pool with sun deck, pizza oven, infrared barrel sauna, ice bath, hot tub and an outdoor shower – together creating an ideal bush-style antidote to a Barbie dream house. The property is named for its abundance of fruit and nut trees, veggie gardens and landscaped grounds. 'It is a hidden, high-end escape to reconnect, rejuvenate and simply soak up the beauty of nature,' the listing states. Three-time Oscar nominee Robbie and her husband Tom Ackerley are based in the US and returned to Queensland in the Easter holidays for the first time since welcoming a son in October last year. PropTrack data shows the median house price in Tallebudgera Valley has dropped 16 per cent to $1.84m over the past 12 months, following huge growth since the pandemic boom.
Daily Telegraph
28-05-2025
- Business
- Daily Telegraph
Byron Bay's Beach Hotel sold for $140m
The famous Beach Hotel at Byron Bay has traded hands for $140m, the second most expensive Aussie pub ever sold. 'The Beachie' has been bought by Scott Didier, Group CEO of construction firm Johns Lyng Group. The $140m price tag is the second highest price paid for a pub in Australia, behind The Crossroads Hotel in Casula in Sydney's southwest which changed hands for $160m in 2022. MORE: Bizarre feature of Hemsworth's $50m Byron Bay home MA Financial Group's Redcape Hospitality confirmed the sale late Wednesday. 'The Beach Hotel is a special place, and the team has thoroughly enjoyed being a part of its history' said Chris Unger, Managing Director, Redcape Hospitality. 'The sale not only delivers a strong result but also marks an exciting new chapter for the Beach Hotel and we are sure it will continue to thrive as a beloved part of the Byron Bay landscape under the guidance of the Didier family.' The sale was brokered by John Musca of JLL. The sale of The Beach Hotel has come amid increased new competition for drinking holes across NSW. Originally a family pub run by Sale of the Century hostess Delvene Delaney and her producer husband – and best mate to Paul Hogan, John 'Strop' Cornell – The Beach Hotel in Byron was the first Aussie pub to sell for $100m, when it last traded in 2019. RELATED: How family business became billion dollar pub empire Records then revealed that global investment firm MA Financial Group had entered into an exclusivity agreement to purchase the 4585sq m property that Delaney and Cornell, who produced and co-wrote the international blockbuster Crocodile Dundee, spent about $9 million building up in the 1990s. The pub has since been managed by Redcape. At the time of the 2019 sale, Dan Brady, CEO of MA Financial Group, described the almost waterfront hotel as an 'iconic Australian establishment located on irreplaceable real estate.' MORE: Kmart set to change everything in Temu war 'The acquisition of both freehold and operating interests will enable the required capital investment to further enhance what has made the hotel iconic – that is, a great community gathering place with a fun, sociable, friendly and safe hospitality offering delivered by an engage and passionate team of local hospitality professionals,' Mr Brady. said. The Oaks Hotel in Neutral Bay on Sydney's North Shore was believed to have been sold for $175m in 2022, before the sale fell through and long-time owners The Thomas family decided to keep running it. Former Sydney Lord Mayor Nelson Meers and his family were revealed as the buyers who paid top dollar for The Crossroads. MORE: Price of car spot proves Australia has lost it
News.com.au
28-05-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Byron Bay's Beach Hotel ‘sold for $140m'
The famous Beach Hotel at Byron Bay has traded hands for $140m, according to reports, which would make it the second most expensive Aussie pub ever sold. The massive sale went through late Wednesday, according to Green Street News. If the $140m price tag is confirmed, it would it make the second highest price paid for a pub in Australia, behind The Crossroads Hotel in Casula in Sydney's southwest which changed hands for $160m in 2022. MORE: Bizarre feature of Hemsworth's $50m Byron Bay home The Beach Hotel sits in the heart of Byron Bay. Former Sydney Lord Mayor Nelson Meers and his family were revealed as the buyers who paid top dollar for The Crossroads The new buyer of the Beach Hotel, which sits right in the heart of the township of Byron Bay on Main Beach, is yet to be confirmed. However pub barons Arthur Laundy and Justin Hemmes are sure to mentioned as possibilities given their impressive and ever expanding empires, amid increased new competition for drinking holes across NSW. Originally a family pub run by Sale of the Century hostess Delvene Delaney and her producer husband – and best mate to Paul Hogan, John 'Strop' Cornell – The Beach Hotel in Byron was the first Aussie pub to sell for $100m, when it last traded in 2019. RELATED: How family business became billion dollar pub empire The huge pub last traded for $100m in 2019. John 'Strop' Cornell, Paul Hogan and Delvene Delaney. Records then revealed that global investment group Moelis had entered into an exclusivity agreement to purchase the 4585sq m property that Delaney and Cornell, who produced and co-wrote the international blockbuster Crocodile Dundee, spent about $9 million building up in the 1990s. The pub has since been managed by ASX-listed company, Moelis Australia Hotel Management. At the time of the sale, Dan Brady, CEO of Moelis Australia Hotel Management described the almost waterfront hotel as an 'iconic Australian establishment located on irreplaceable real estate.' MORE: Kmart set to change everything in Temu war Casula's The Crossroads Hotel holds the record Aussie pub sale of $160m. 'The acquisition of both freehold and operating interests will enable the required capital investment to further enhance what has made the hotel iconic – that is, a great community gathering place with a fun, sociable, friendly and safe hospitality offering delivered by an engage and passionate team of local hospitality professionals,' Mr Brady. The Oaks Hotel in Neutral Bay on Sydney's North Shore was believed to have been sold for $175m in 2022, before the sale fell through and long-time owners The Thomas family decided to keep running it. The $175m sale of The Oaks Hotel on Sydney's North Shore fell through. Picture: Supplied MORE: Price of car spot proves Australia has lost it : Originally published as Byron Bay's Beach Hotel 'sold for $140m'
