2026-09-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald
🔮 The order for forfeiture could bring an end to nearly six years of legal proceedings concerning Derby’s only two pubs, the Boab Inn and the Spinifex Hotel which are owned by the same person, after one of the sites drew the attention of WA police back in 2020 after selling alcohol to a customer in front of an off-duty officer.
Western Australia’s state of emergency laws allowed the Liquor Commissioner to put restrictions in place over how much alcohol a person could buy in the Kimberley.
Police said in March 2020, when the restrictions had just come in, the local senior sergeant had gone to the Spinifex Hotel bottle shop while off-duty and saw a staff member sell a customer two blocks of Emu Export. assertive