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Star Hotel riot: the infamous night of music and mayhem in Newcastle

By Greg Ray
Updated September 17 2019 - 11:10am, first published September 13 2019 - 7:00pm
An infamous night of music and mayhem at the Star Hotel in Newcastle
An infamous night of music and mayhem at the Star Hotel in Newcastle

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of the Star Hotel riot, a remarkable moment in Newcastle's history when thousands of Hunter youths came into violent confrontation with police at the closure of one of the city's most famous and outrageous pubs.

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