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The Wobbly Boot has featured regularly in Australian media and travel blogs on lists of strange and iconic Australian pubs owing to its unusual name and notoriety as the inspiration for the
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about the pub while sitting at the bar at the request of publican Glen Bryan, who reportedly paid him $ 1000. The song has since been performed and re-released by artists including
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system to help take advantage of the business opportunities brought by the recently opened
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and unable to walk straight, during the tenure of publican Glen Bryan in the early 1980s.
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In 1989, the Wobbly Boot Hotel was damaged after a fight outside the pub sparked a
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amid racial tensions related to the living conditions of
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Australian pub
Boggabilla
New South Wales
Coordinates
28°36′20″S 150°21′37″E / 28.60555556°S 150.36027778°E / -28.60555556; 150.36027778
Australian pub
Boggabilla
New South Wales
Queensland
septic tank
Boggabilla railway line
drunk
riot
Indigenous Australians
Toomelah Station
Moree
Goondiwindi
Stan Coster
Stan Coster
Slim Dusty
John Williamson
N scale
HO scale
model railways
"HOTEL FIRE: Building and Contents Destroyed"
"BOGGABILLA'S NEW HOTEL"


"People"

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