Don't Blame The Hotels New Pubs Boss Sally Fielke's View On Violence

HOMES are more dangerous than hotels when it comes to alcohol-related violence, new pubs boss Sally Fielke says.

Don't Blame The Hotels

Sally Fielke HOMES are more dangerous than hotels when it comes to alcohol-related violence, new pubs boss Sally Fielke says.

Hotels Buoyed By Visitor Numbers

Hotel operators are hoping the increase in the number of international tourists and improved domestic travel figures will mean greater occupancy rates.

Fall-off Rate Good For Hoteliers

The conversion of hotels to apartments and low demand for new rooms has led to an 8.1 per cent drop in development in the sector during the past six months.

Smuggler Caught Red-handed

A new photograph which provides damning evidence that Ali Cetin helped smuggle 14 Turkish Kurds to Melville Island, off Darwin, has emerged as federal police have yet to charge the Mosman kebab-shop owner.

Hospitals Share The Workload

About 50 people injured by the devastating Bali bomb were flown from Darwin last night to hospitals around the nation for specialist treatment.

Willesee Puts Two Hotels Up For Sale

Media personality Mike Willesee hopes to raise as much as $16 million by selling two of his popular pubs, the Town Hall at Balmain and the Union at North Sydney.

A Day At The ... V8 Supercars

BRAZILIAN WITH A BUZZ They haven't quite started doing the samba in the grandstand yet, but such has been the buzz caused by Brazilian V8 supercar new boy Max Wilson that it can only be a matter of time before crowds from Darwin's Hidden Valley to Victoria's Phillip Island are bedecked in Brazil

Darwin's Theory Of Evolution, Postal Votes To Come

The invitation to Labor leader Clare Martin arrived last Wednesday. Could she attend the function on August 27, nine days after the Northern Territory election? The special guest, said the invitation, would be the Chief Minister, Denis Burke.

Travellers Stranded By Dili Flight Ban

Dozens of travellers are stranded in East Timor and Darwin because of a Civil Aviation Safety Authority ban on Australian passenger planes using Dili's airport. The ban was issued late on Friday, and the only operator of scheduled flights, he Darwin-based Air North Regional, said it was caught co

Darwin Is Dancing To Timorese Tunes

Sales clerk Anna Cussen, 31, remembers the good old days when Darwin was a sleepy town, attracting mainly tourists who were drawn to breathtaking coastline and nearby Kakadu National Park. That was two weeks ago. Darwin's role as the launch pad for Timor aid has since spawned a mini-renaiss

No Piddling Matter As Drunken Sailors Add Insult To Injury

The Australian Navy has apologised to the Commonwealth Games athletics team for rowdy and drunken behaviour by sailors which has led to the team switching hotels at its Darwin base. More than 50 sailors on shore leave last weekend spent two nights drinking at the historic Hotel Darwin. The no

Abbott Seized In Laundromat

Australia's most wanted man, the jail escapee Brendon Abbott, was carrying guns, wigs for disguises, $22,000 and a laptop computer to forge drivers' licences when he was arrested in Darwin at the weekend. After six months on the run around Australia, Abbott was seized by seven armed police from

Australian Still Held In Sex Case

Bangkok, Tuesday. An Australian tourist cleared of child-sex charges by a Philippines court last week is still in custody while a legal tug-of-war continues with child-protection campaigners. Victor Fitzgerald, 66, a former Darwin businessman, has spent more than two years in a squalid provinc

Pm's Flying Circus Is Quite Some Party

Canberra. The hotels have been block-booked for 66 guests, the protocol officer has driven over the route a dozen times with a stopwatch and the first-aid kit has been loaded with sleeping pills. Paul Keating's flying circus is on the move again. When the Prime Minister heads overseas, the

The Details That Clients Consider Important

Comfort and convenience are important on the road. PENNY HUTTON asked five Melbourne business people what they would like to see changed. ARE business hotels meeting the needs of regular travellers? We asked a handful of professionals what they were looking for, and what they would like to see

Nt Drunks Get Drinking Ban

Northern Territory Aborigines who have spent time in sobering-up shelters are facing total bans on drinking in hotels and jail sentences if they do drink. Aboriginal groups say the move is recriminalising drunkenness by stealth. The North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service said at lea

(accor Plans Sofitel Chain)

Accor plans Sofitel chain. Accor Asia Pacific is looking at bringing its premier Sofitel five- star hotel chain to Australia. Accor already operates 43 hotels in Australia with the four-star Novotel and three-star Ibis hotels. The chief executive of Accor Asia Pacific, Mr Koos Klein, said of th

Tough For Territory's Black Bands

DARWIN: Racism and lack of industry support are undermining the potentially lucrative Aboriginal music industry in Australia, according to a report commissioned by the Northern Territory Arts Industry Council. The report said that although Aboriginal bands in the Territory were creating so

'we're Ready,' Say Sailors

IN Woolloomooloo's dockyard hotels, the sailors were telling their last tall stories on their final Friday night in Sydney. Across Cowper Wharf Road, the smart grey battle dresses of HMAS Sydney and HMAS Brisbane's special radar nightware gleamed in the street lights. At the Tilbury