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Speaker 1: Ray and Brush a bill to make it easier to

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Speaker 1: buy booze on public holidays. Who doesn't like the sound

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Speaker 1: of this? Already has passed its first reading in Parliament.

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Speaker 1: If the bill becomes law, licensed premises will be able

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Speaker 1: to sell alcohol on Christmas Day, Easter Weekend and Anzac

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Speaker 1: Day without restriction, so long as the business is legally

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Speaker 1: allowed to open on these days. Anyway, the bill went

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Speaker 1: to a conscience vote. While it passed sixty seven fifty four,

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Speaker 1: some of Karen McNulty's labor colleagues voted against it. The

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Speaker 1: laboring Peace with Us now Karen good evening, Hey here,

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Speaker 1: who's against a bear on Anzac Day?

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Speaker 2: Mayla. I think we've got to recognize that for a

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Speaker 2: lot of people, Easter and Christmas is really important and

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Speaker 2: any suggestion of a change on that is a difficult prospect.

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Speaker 2: And actually this has been debated in Parliament many, many

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Speaker 2: times and we've never got it to Select committee. But

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Speaker 2: I thought about this bill quite a lot and was

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Speaker 2: really specific about what I'm proposing Only those businesses that

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Speaker 2: are already open, So the pubs and the restaurants that

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Speaker 2: already open on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but have

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Speaker 2: to go through this brigmarole of making sure someone's had

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Speaker 2: a meal before they let them buy a pint. Only

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Speaker 2: those are the ones that will be affected. And all

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Speaker 2: I'm saying is they should just if they're already legally

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Speaker 2: able to open, they should operate like they do every

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Speaker 2: other day to year.

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Speaker 1: Does that get the unions on site because they're worry

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Speaker 1: is you know you have people opening that otherwise wouldn't open,

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Speaker 1: and then the staff are forced to work.

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Speaker 2: Well, the thing is that we have guaranteed days off

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Speaker 2: for most workers, and it's only a couple of year,

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Speaker 2: and any prospect of changing that is a big deal.

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Speaker 2: In a much larger conversation, what I'm talking about the

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Speaker 2: fact is that only businesses that are already open, and

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Speaker 2: therefore workers that are already working, and in fact, I

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Speaker 2: tell you, well I've spoken to hospitality workers will be

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Speaker 2: pleased to be operating under the rules that they've been

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Speaker 2: trained under for the rest of the year, rather than

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Speaker 2: monitoring what someone's eaten in the last hour window before

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Speaker 2: they know whether they can serve them a pine to

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Speaker 2: or not.

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Speaker 1: Are you do you reckon that you'll get the same

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Speaker 1: amount of support on the second reading.

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Speaker 2: I hope so. I was really clear with other MP's

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Speaker 2: last night when we debated the bill. I just want

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Speaker 2: to be pragmatic. I'm conscious that we've never had any

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Speaker 2: movement in this area, and if it turns out that

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Speaker 2: the majority of MP's are uncomfortable with Christmas Day being included,

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Speaker 2: I'll take it out. I don't care. I just want

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Speaker 2: to see some movement in this area. The end that day.

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Speaker 2: Morning one is particularly important to me. I don't think

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Speaker 2: RSA should have to go through the process of getting

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Speaker 2: a special license just to give veterans a drink after

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Speaker 2: a dawn service or a civic service in mid morning.

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Speaker 2: I think that's silly. They should be able to operate

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Speaker 2: like they do in any other day of the year.

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Speaker 1: You need a job at David Seymour's regulation bashing Ministry.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like it's been right up as Ellie Karen.

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Speaker 1: They appreciate your time. Keren mcinaally from Parliament will let

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Speaker 1: you get back into the House for

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