Stayed at a cheap $75 hotel/pub room on Monday night while at Taree. At about 3am the bloody fire alarms go off in our room and all the adjoining eight rooms. Woke us up OK and then switched off in about 5 minutes. No fire brigade attended. Back to bed. 20 minutes later same thing again and still no brigade attended. As from a number of years ago, it is a code requirement that all "hard wired" fire alarms be monitored via a fire alarm panel transponder, capable of notifying the fire brigade. I told the the hotel manager the next morning and his response was "Oh well, I'll have to get it checked". YES!