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Speaker 1: Can we know that the Northern Territory government has put

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Speaker 1: aside two point six million dollars into a new initiative

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Speaker 1: called Work Hard, Play Hard. It's aimed to attract tourism

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Speaker 1: and hospitality workers to the territory through offering this work perks.

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Speaker 2: I guess you'd call them a.

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Speaker 1: Bit of an incentive in the form of a five

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars NT travel code which can be redeemed at

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory Visitor Center.

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Speaker 2: Apparently, so joining us on.

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Speaker 1: The line to tell us a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: how this is going to work.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully he's got a better idea.

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Speaker 1: It is the hospitality CEO, Alex Bruce.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Alex, Good morning Kati mate. How

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Speaker 2: exactly is this going to work?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Look, credit to the government and industry partners on

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Speaker 3: this one. They've partnered with job Shack. That's an organization

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Speaker 3: that's linked to the youth Shack. Yeah, yep, Phil in

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Speaker 3: the city. And so everyone in the hospitality and tourism

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Speaker 3: industry is crying out for workers. You know, we've this

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Speaker 3: last year. We're going to be a disrupted until you

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Speaker 3: know a few years from now when we really get

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Speaker 3: the international pipelines back, so you know it's the right time.

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Speaker 3: I've got a lot of members already indicating that they've

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Speaker 3: got vacancies that they're trying to feel now ahead of

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Speaker 3: what we're hoping will be a bumper dry season for us.

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Speaker 3: So any operators can just go to the job shacknt

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Speaker 3: dot com dot au and load their jobs and if

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Speaker 3: any of the working holiday makers and this has been

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Speaker 3: promoted into the backpack of hostels and throughout that market

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Speaker 3: in Darwin for people already that are up here and

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Speaker 3: one that are in the country and thinking of traveling

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Speaker 3: up International students are also eligible. If they then secure

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Speaker 3: a job and work it for two months with us

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Speaker 3: through that portal, they get a five hundred dollars voucher

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Speaker 3: similar to those territory tours of vouchers that people got

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Speaker 3: in the past, and they can use that to book

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Speaker 3: you know, tours, attractions, accommodation. We think it's quite competitive,

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Speaker 3: quite positive. You know, we definitely do believe that, you know,

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Speaker 3: you can be working in a hot, sweaty kitchen anywhere,

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Speaker 3: or you can be on a housekeeper keeping Dolly car anywhere,

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Speaker 3: and it's what the territory can offer on your day off.

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Speaker 3: That is a bit of a selling point for us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it might certainly is.

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Speaker 1: So do we have any idea of what these you know, like,

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Speaker 1: where we can actually spend these vouchers, where people are

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Speaker 1: going to be able to to you know, to actually

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, So it's similar to what the locals got the

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Speaker 3: benefit of with those territory tourism vouchers. Your book through

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Speaker 3: Tourism top End or Tourism Central Australia or the Catherine

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Speaker 3: Information Center and there'll be packages of different accommodation and

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Speaker 3: attractions and tours that you can do. And you know,

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Speaker 3: five hundred dollars is quite generous. And already the site

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Speaker 3: went live yesterday, that job shack site, and already there's

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Speaker 3: over fifty different kinds of jobs, multiple vacancies posted on there.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've got travel agent house, peep's chefs, receptionist,

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Speaker 3: bartender's weight staff and then stuff gardener's bruce. The list

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Speaker 3: goes on. So you know, there's never been a bit

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Speaker 3: of time to come come join us and work in

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Speaker 3: our industry. And if you're a working holidaymaker or an

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Speaker 3: international tourist to get that work perk as a bit

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Speaker 3: of an added bonus.

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Speaker 2: Alex before I let you go this morning.

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Speaker 1: How are our hospitality industry feeling as those masks have

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Speaker 1: been lifted off?

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Speaker 3: Okay, Look, it changes the vibe of the place, doesn't it.

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Speaker 3: You're walking around and you're seeing smiling faces. You know,

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Speaker 3: the staff are just so happy to be taking them off. Look,

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Speaker 3: you see the odd person with a mask be at

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Speaker 3: a customer or an employee, and you know that's absolutely

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Speaker 3: feign inappropriate and we welcome and we welcome that. So

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Speaker 3: but you know, for the vast majority of us, it's

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Speaker 3: like the temperature territory. They knew what was going to

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Speaker 3: go on because they've dialed up the humidity the last

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Speaker 3: few days haven't made so it's been great to get

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Speaker 1: It's certainly been good to take those masks of Hey, mate,

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Speaker 1: we've been talking a lot in the last week or

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Speaker 1: so about some of the you know, alcohol on the

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Speaker 1: streets that we've been seeing people in from various communities

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Speaker 1: and public drunkenness. How with our takeaway outlets, how are

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Speaker 1: they going at this point in time? Is there a

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Speaker 1: concern you know, has there been a concern from them

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Speaker 1: that there are people trying to access alcohol, who shouldn't be.

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Speaker 3: Ill? Look, Katie, honestly, I think the BDR is marginal

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Speaker 3: at best, and our advice to government has always been

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Speaker 3: we've got a bit of a halfway house there and

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Speaker 3: it just doesn't seem to be heading the mark at

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Speaker 3: the moment. But would definitely welcome the ability to sit

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Speaker 3: down with government and flesh it out further. And you

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Speaker 3: know we've been we've been giving them that advice for years.

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Speaker 3: Your touched on it with your interview with the minister. Yea.

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Speaker 3: They really need to get a move on with some

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Speaker 3: of those community clubs out in remote areas and involve

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Speaker 3: importantly the urban community. We shouldn't be so elective about

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Speaker 3: who gets to say about where alcohol should or shouldn't

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Speaker 3: be too much. I don't think we need to learn

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Speaker 3: to live with it again like we did previously. That

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Speaker 3: Stronger Futures legislations expiring first of July. So how come

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Speaker 3: we don't have more than just Barunga. Why don't we

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Speaker 3: have six or seven ready to go? We know that

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Speaker 3: people are displaced from their kin and their community, and

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Speaker 3: a lot of the support services on country and unfortunately

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Speaker 3: to live with the consequences of that.

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Speaker 1: Are you finding are we finding at the moment with

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Speaker 1: our hospitality industries that they are being targeted in terms

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Speaker 1: of break ins for alcohol?

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Speaker 3: Well, look they are, but you're seeing use that may

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Speaker 3: not necessarily be consuming that alcohol themselves, but on selling

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Speaker 3: it to the older itinerant population. So you know, we

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Speaker 3: do have the strictest supply side rules in the country

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Speaker 3: and focusing on that alone clearly just doesn't work. You know,

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Speaker 3: you hear Alice Springs is an unfortunately in a better

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Speaker 3: position when it comes to crime. So everyone likes the

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Speaker 3: palis the police on the bottle shops. It's a very

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Speaker 3: expensive policy for the government to roll out and yet

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Speaker 3: you know it's not all roses. So we really need

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Speaker 3: to go back to looking at the demand side stuff,

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Speaker 3: the harm minimization stuff. There are billions of dollars that

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Speaker 3: come in from Cambra to deal with a lot of

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Speaker 3: this stuff. And you know, after a decade of stronger

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Speaker 3: futures and billions of dollars, can those people that have

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Speaker 3: worked on it with the best of intentions hand on

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Speaker 3: hard actually say they shifted the needle, you know, but

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Speaker 3: instead we just keep obsessing about more supply side restrictions

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Speaker 3: and it's just it's not right and it's not fixing things.

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Speaker 1: Katie Well, Alex Bruce, we are going to have to

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Speaker 1: leave it there, the See of Hospitality here in the territory.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Cheers all of that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you,