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A picture of a hotel motel with a for sale sign edited into the photo.

Ben Pelizzari smiling at the camera with a beer.

"Sixty-seven years is probably enough for our family. We're ready to pass it onto the next people that want to put their stamp on it."

A read door into a pub painted blue.

"I think the strong will survive,"
he said.

Black and white image of two-storey building with verandah.

woman in black and white top smiling in street

The main street of Barcaldine.

"A lot of pubs have been taken over by women who want to get rid of the pokies, make it less a place for gambling and drinking hard,"
she said.

Wyandra pub from a distance outside with dark storm clouds.

Close up of to two beers with a man and a woman's hand around each beer.

"Over the last few years, as we've come out of the pandemic, people have realised it's tough to run a hotel at the present time,"
he said.

A collage of three images inside a rodeo style western bar.

"We have enough country pubs. People are looking for variety rather than more of the same,"
he said.

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