A famous Aussie pub at the centre of Netflix’s | Australian Markets

An notorious Aussie pub at the centre of an eight-year-old outback thriller and a Netflix sequence that gripped the world has hit the market.

The Larrimah Hotel in the Northern Territory is for sale for the first time since the standard two-part sequence was launched in 2023.

The show delved into the disappearance of Paddy Moriarty who was one of city’s 12 residents and a common at the pub when he went lacking.

The Irish-born 70-year-old was final seen along with his pink kelpie cross Kellie leaving the Pink Panther Hotel in Larrimah on December 16, 2017.

Publican Steve Baldwin purchased the pub from Barry Sharpe in 2018 not long after Mr Moriarty went lacking.

The lodge is positioned about 500km south of Darwin in the center of the Northern Territory alongside the Stuart Highway and is a standard stopover for travellers and vacationers eager to know more about the city the place Mr Moriarty disappeared.

Real property agent Warren Andrews is promoting the property listed for $795,00 saying, “You have to see it to believe it”.

He describes the lodge as all the things you’d anticipate and need in a “true blue Aussie bush pub.”

“From the pink panthers, the giant draught stubble, to the resident emus and crocodiles, this pub is steeped in history and mystique,” he mentioned.

Mr Baldwin instructed NewsWire there was more to the pub’s historical past than the story about one of its most common punters disappearing.

“The pub will be 100 years old in five years, it was created during the war by the military and played a big part,” he mentioned.

“We’re at the end of the railway line from Darwin, where a lot of troops would come from down from, then go south to Alice Springs and then to Mount Isa and end up back here on the train.

“They built an airstrip here after the bombing in Darwin.

“There were nearly 10,000 people here which is huge, now there is eight.”

Mr Baldwin mentioned three of its residents had died since Last Stop Larrimah first aired on Netflix.

“They were all geriatrics,” he mentioned.

“According to Carl, who was in the Netflix show and lived across the road, he reckons there was no beer on tap here for about 30 years,” he mentioned.

“There were taps in the cool room when I got here that weren’t being used so we opened the place up and rebuilt the bar.”

Mr Baldwin mentioned it was arduous to quantify how many guests handed by means of the lodge every year however more and more people stopped to search out out more about the mysterious city.

He mentioned a new fuel plant in the Beetaloo Basin was on account of begin quickly which might carry more employees to the area.

The pub additionally comes with two crocodiles referred to as Sneaky Sam and Agro that dwell out the back of the lodge and are fed by Mr Baldwin.

“We say we are selling the crocs and we’ll chuck in the pub,” he mentioned.

When requested how a lot a crocodile was price, Mr Baldwin replied, “$795,000.”

“I just want to slow down a bit and retire,” he mentioned.

“It’s a good opportunity for a low level entry into a good business that has lots of opportunity going forward.

“You don’t often get a 100-year-old building here in the tropics, or in the Territory, or one at the centre of a Netflix series, and he still hasn’t been found.

“There was a reward of $250,000 to find out what happened to Paddy Moriarty, and in the budget last week the treasurer upped it to $500,000.

“I don’t know it will ever be solved, and the old publican has died.

“Fran still lives here, she’s 81 years old now, she’ll stand on the balcony or come in here and say, ‘He’s leaving, don’t go missing now’.”