Babinda State Hotel Australia's only government-built pub has been listed for sale in Far North Queensland, and there isn't a single bureaucrat in sight. The heritage-listed Babinda State Hotel was constructed by the Queensland Government between 1916 and 1917 at a cost of 18,000 pounds, or roughly the equivalent of $2 million in 2022. Given Australia's current inflation rate, that number would be higher. It was built by the Labor government at the time, led by Thomas Ryan, at a time when wartime restrictions, food shortages and high prices prompted the establishment of state-run businesses to compete with private sector business, according to the Queensland Heritage Register.

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