The Wallaroo Hotel is the only commercial outlet in Coolatai, with its 28 residents and surrounding livestock graziers and wheat farmers. A poem written by John Grills about adventures with the black panther adorns the hotel’s walls, as does a graphic painting entitled Grunter vs Panther at the Wallaroo. Today, however, the panther must compete with champion racehorses such as ‘Sunline’ and ‘Shogun Lodge’, and with the Parramatta Eels rugby-league team, for pride of place in the public bar.
The pub has been owned by league legend Noel Cleal, and been burnt down, threatened with closure, renovated and, since April 2008, running smoothly under the care of Graham Sweeney in the bar, and his mother, Diane, in the kitchen
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