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Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now.

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Speaker 2: I do apologize and running so late Alex Bruce the

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Speaker 2: sea of hospitality here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you mate?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in a bit of a different start to

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Speaker 3: the year.

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Speaker 1: It most certainly has. It's been very busy.

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Speaker 2: And before I get into the delegation that's setting off

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Speaker 2: Alice Spring's obviously some really strict sort of alcohol bands

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Speaker 2: in place at the moment. From hospitalities perspective, how's it going.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, we were down there last week chatting to

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Speaker 3: our venues and they're part of the community down there.

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Speaker 3: They were dealing with the antisocial behavior and the crime

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Speaker 3: and the breakings either at their houses or into their

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Speaker 3: venues after hours to access alcohol. So I think broadly

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Speaker 3: supportive that there's been the attention placed on the issue.

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Speaker 3: You know, it didn't suddenly appear overnight. It's a long

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Speaker 3: standing problem that we're still trying to tackle and grapple with.

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Speaker 3: But from their perspective talking to them, it seems like,

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Speaker 3: you know, they're happy that there has been that spotlight

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Speaker 3: focused on them. It's not just Alice though, we hear

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Speaker 3: that constantly. And yeah, now we've really got to see

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Speaker 3: some hard works done by both the fedral and territory

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Speaker 3: governments to try and do more than just slap band

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Speaker 3: aids on the solution. That's all they've done so far

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Speaker 3: in our space with the dry days and everything else.

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Speaker 3: And whether that pushes people to mount either or Cooper

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Speaker 3: Seedy or up to Castro or further. You know, there's

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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty mil. We better constantly keep an

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Speaker 3: eye on that and make sure it actually is going

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Speaker 3: to try and break the cycle is just tragically unfolding

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Speaker 3: down there, because otherwise, Katie, I feel like we're on

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Speaker 3: a bit of a merry go round and you know,

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Speaker 3: at the end of that ninety days, what will we

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Speaker 3: be talking about.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope we're not still bloody talking about the

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Speaker 2: same things. Alex and I think that's, you know, the

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Speaker 2: very good point that you're making.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we are happy that they're looking to change that.

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Speaker 3: Opt in about singing Parliament this week. We joined the

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Speaker 3: chorus by October last year. Obviously a lot of those

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Speaker 3: other groups were there from earlier on the ground than that.

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Speaker 3: It did seem like, you know, the last six months

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Speaker 3: a little bit of a stuff up. Let's just cop

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Speaker 3: it on the chin. Work towards a better outcoming, including

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Speaker 3: supporting some of those communities in town camps to appropriately

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Speaker 3: collectively make decisions that are well regulated and everything else.

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Speaker 3: Don't just rip the rug out from underneath them. Call

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Speaker 3: anything else race based. You know, that kind of language

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Speaker 3: I don't think is particularly helpful in the space. But

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Speaker 3: you know, let's all continue to work together.

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Speaker 2: We've got to try and move forward from here and

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Speaker 2: got to try and make a difference. Now, Alex, I

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Speaker 2: know that a delegation of territory businesses, well territory territorians,

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Speaker 2: are aiming to recruise one hundred hospitality workers when you

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Speaker 2: visit the United Kingdom and Island next month in an

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Speaker 2: effort to increase skilled workforce through the Global Worker Attraction Program.

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Speaker 1: Why is this delegation needed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty positive. We spoke about it at the

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Speaker 3: back end of last year. Minister Kirby had put out

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Speaker 3: a bit of an expression of interest from different businesses

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Speaker 3: and sectors and industry groups right across all the different industries,

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Speaker 3: because you know, everyone's got workforce challenges and you might

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Speaker 3: have warm bodies, but you're lacking some skills in your

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Speaker 3: businesses as a common theme right across. So you know,

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Speaker 3: a bunch of the smaller operators in our space got

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Speaker 3: together and loaded a submission. So hat software run involved,

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Speaker 3: particularly the department and Migration NTE. There's been a lot

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Speaker 3: of work done from that announcement to today and we

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Speaker 3: start to see some people leaving later in the week

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Speaker 3: for the UK and rolling through over the next three

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Speaker 3: or four weeks. And it is only people that are

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Speaker 3: going over there with the very clear intention to sign

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Speaker 3: people up and bring them back with us. And we've

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Speaker 3: got some good people going along.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, setting along, who's heading along?

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Speaker 3: Look we've got we've got voyages down at as Rock

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Speaker 3: Resort there, We've got some pubs and clubs and restaurants

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Speaker 3: from across Darwin. Hayley who is a bit of an

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Speaker 3: advocate for us. She's the venue manager sorry events manager

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Speaker 3: at Charlie's of Darwin that was sponsored by Darwin Sailing

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Speaker 3: Club a couple of years previous. A beautiful girl from Birmingham.

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Speaker 3: She's the success story. She's been in the territory for

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Speaker 3: five years and loves it and wants to go back

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Speaker 3: over there and try and tell that positive vision. You know, Yes,

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Speaker 3: we except that we have challenges right across the territory,

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Speaker 3: but there's also so much that we can be out

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Speaker 3: there promoting to try and fix some of our workforce shortages.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look it's a tough one.

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Speaker 2: I know that there'll always be those questions or is

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Speaker 2: this just a junkers? I mean, what would you say

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Speaker 2: to anybody that's asking that question this morning, Alex, as

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Speaker 2: we're speaking, Well.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going on it. The minut is not going

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Speaker 3: on it. It is literally only those businesses and they

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Speaker 3: buy and large are at the smaller end less able.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've got large chain grouped multinational footprints in

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Speaker 3: some of our hotel brands. If you think about it,

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Speaker 3: they've got quite sophisticated international recruitment pathways. This was about

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Speaker 3: helping smaller territorians get out there, tell their story and

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Speaker 3: put the NT on the map to that target market

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Speaker 3: in the UK and Ireland that you know probably think

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Speaker 3: we're about Bombay and miserable Melbourne and that's about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hope we can get these additional one hundred

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Speaker 2: hospitality workers. I mean to be great to see and

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Speaker 2: I know that they are very much needed. Alex Bruce

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Speaker 2: I am sorry that we don't have more time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Good to catch up with you. As always, we'll talk

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Speaker 2: to you again soon.

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Speaker 3: Cheers Katie, Well, thank you you too,