PUBS OF THE MONTH HEBEL HOTEL, QLD

NOT JUST A PoTM… BUT A TOWN OF THE MONTH!

WORDS/PHOTOS COLIN WHELAN

The first impression you get when arriving at Hebel on the back road from Goodooga is that some folks ‘round here have guns – big guns. The sign on the border signals more the end of the sand, the dirt and the broken grey oil that passes for the road than the differentiation between two states. It also has more holes in it than a Tony Abbott election promise. But where Abbott’s fancies feature bullet points, the sign is a sieve of bullet holes or rather shotgun craters.