Why Aussies love the pub 🍻 | Back Roads | ABC Australia

The evolution of the Aussie pub started with convict and gold mining heritage to binge drinking in the six o’clock swill during WWI and on to the essential social hub of the community we know today.

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[jamescorry]

I spent nearly 3 years working outback doing power line maintenance and such and nearly all our accommodation was in outback pubs, , , , man we had some awesome times, , , we were an 7 man outfit with my wife as the cook when we stayed in camps, ,, we have had nights where the publican has shouted us to drink in their pub, ,, we have been asked by a couple of publicans / owners who offered us free accommodation to stay at their establishments, , , , the reason, , us Maori could make the pub rock, we had 2 guitar with us everytime we walked into a pub, we had pubs sell out of beer while we were partying in the bar, , and not once in the 3 years we were on the road did we have trouble with the "locals"

[danmoriarty]

I still like to go to the pub. I stand outside and look through the window at the beers on the bar. I have such great memories of when I could afford to drink one.

[SailorGerry]

In 1980, my brother, a close mutual friend and myself, drank our way around Australia. Initially we 'acclimatized' ourselves with the drinking culture of Oz with a few days in Sydney, then taking the Indian-Pacific across to Perth. From Perth we went 'round the top', back to the east coast, down to Canberra and then to Sydney. It was an easy 'apprenticeship', and by the time we arrived on the east coast, and after many daily (mostly in the evening; sometimes starting in early afternoon) 'pounding back' of good cold draught, we were more than ready to stand head-to-head and hold our own with our cousin Aussies.

The western desert is mesmerizing and magical - we had the time of our lives.

'Dinkum Mate' & Cheers!
from Montreal, Canada...

[justajellydonut]

I love Australia! Such a beautiful country that we have! Cheers to the ABC and this reporter :) 🇦🇺

[Steven_Rowe]

I'm a pom but lived here 52 years and I'm now 71.
The country pub is iconic and may it thrive.
The only pet peeve of mine is schooners and not pints.
I will always try a local beer if I can.

[stuartkcalvin]

Thanks ABC. One of my favourite pubs is at Quamby.

[nasirrasul]

Love how the one bar patron says we don’t like to fight we’re just socially excitable ha ha

[Bims-tb]

I reckon a good pub has the following: lots of beer, lots of friends, lots of food and lots of sport on the tv in fact I’d like to recreate the 1960s interview of what’s the quickest way to get in a fight in Australian pubs and see what people think some 60 years later

[RickSuaz]

Nothing like a Cold one during a hot one.

[BrianKitching-wvnh]

I loved going to the pub in the UK but can't anymore due to health issues now.I would love to go to the pub in Australia to see what its like.In the UK a pint costs around £4 now, how much is a beer in Australia now? Just curious?Also what do your beers come in regarding sizes, like pints ect?
Thanking You
Brian

[Luke-xxri]

Very rarely do I go to the pub nowadays as the taxes have ruined it for me thanks government

[chrisstokes]

Should do another article, Why Aussies can't afford the pub anymore.

[joelmonkley]

It's not all Australian it was the same here in New Zealand

[Professor__S]

2025: $15/$20 for a pint.
No thanks. Ill brew my own beer and invite friends to my house for drinks. The pub scene is dying

[aussiegor]

Why Aussies love the pub...obvious answer there.

A better question is why are our governments hellbent on killing the pub with an automatic tax increase on beer twice a year.

[AusHowie]

“Dominated by male drinkers!”

Oh my how absurd 🙄

[FredRose]

I disagree, pub’s in Australian are vacuum’s of social interaction, all so money vacuums, between poker machines, TAB, Keno and on top of that, on every wall there is a tv showing all sort’s of BORING ball sports that encourage patron’s to gamble via online corrupt app’s via there phone’s😐

[davidboyle]

Aussies don't love the pub, I live in perth and it's only the British keeping them open