The Carlisle Hotel: Extract from Hideout in the Apocalypse

Illustrated by Dean Sewell

John Stapleton
Nov 6 · 7 min read
Sydney’s famous Carlisle Hotel

he Carlisle Hotel in the back streets of Newtown in Sydney’s inner-west is one of the few places left in Sydney where the wowsers have not won; an old-fashioned pub in an increasingly strictured, shuttered country.

Hotels and beer gardens across Australia are now largely empty, barren places…

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