From male-dominated drinking holes to community hubs, the local pub has become a national institution worth celebrating.
Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this articleWe've copped a hammering in the past year. From dry spells in parts of the Top End to floods and more floods along the eastern seaboard and inland, in New South Wales and Victoria.
The one constant for so many country people, the one haven where recovery plans can be organised, tales of woe shared and encouragement given to soldier on together, is the local pub.You don't have to enjoy a beer or two to know this.A place of refuge, not just refreshment The town by and large dodged a bullet, though some streets and farmlands, including my cousins', were not so fortunate.Traditionally, the Murchison East Railway Hotel by the grain silos — "The East" as we all call it — was where family and friends always got together at year's end on completion of the wheat harvest.
Murchison East publicans Paul and Emilia Golding, with their son Mitch, put on a free community barbecue to thank all the volunteers who worked tirelessly during the floods to save their town."The pub is the hub of our community," Paul Golding told me."We're so grateful to the volunteers in the SES and the CFA .
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