Lees Hotel in Ingham, Queensland, a Queensland icon, is recognised as the official Pub with No Beer made famous by Slim Dusty's song "A Pub with No Beer".[1][2][3] The 1957 song, which became Australia's first international hit, was based on the poem A Pub Without Beer written by Ingham sugarcane farmer and poet Dan Sheahan in the Day Dawn Hotel, now known as Lees Hotel, in Ingham in 1943.[4][5][6]
- ^ National Trust, Queensland Icons, The Pub with No Beer, Page 7
- ^ ABC, The pub with no beer, Jan 15, 2009, by Winsome Denyer, http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/01/21/2467012.htm
- ^ Dan Sheahan, bush balladist (the pub without beer), by Irene Maskell, 1988, ASIN B0007C4714
- ^ The Cairns Post, Fresh look for icon, Nov 14, 2012, page 30, by Nick Dalton
- ^ John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Lees Hotel in Ingham, Queensland, Aug 4, 2013, by Sarah Scragg, http://bishop.slq.qld.gov.au/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1419911142632~891&locale=en_US&metadata_object_ratio=14&show_metadata=true&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/singleViewer.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=10&frameId=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true
- ^ RACQ, Bring back the Queensland Road Trip, page 3, http://tourism.racq.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/54199/Townsville-to-Ingham.pdf