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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf. Thanks to Joyce Main Dowin

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Speaker 1: homes On and Stuart Highway.

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Speaker 2: Beer from Hospitality NT CEO. Alex Bruce, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Alex, Good morning Katie. This has a bit of good

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Speaker 1: speed interview. You know we've been doing that. It would

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Speaker 1: be workers lately.

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Speaker 2: Mate. We keep things efficient in here as efficient as

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Speaker 2: we can. ALEXJ. What was your reaction to yesterday's budget?

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Speaker 1: I look, all in all compared to the five months

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Speaker 1: ago when the last budget was delivered positive. Leave it

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Speaker 1: to others to talk about the overall state of the

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Speaker 1: debt and the finances. But pleasingly over the four four years,

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Speaker 1: we're seeing consumption return, We're seeing more more positive population

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Speaker 1: growth numbers. You know, pre COVID, we we were in

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Speaker 1: a pretty bad spot on some of those metrics, and

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Speaker 1: it does seem that we are recovering. And you know,

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Speaker 1: as crazy as Carl Cox was on the weekend and

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Speaker 1: around town, there is a buzz that you know, Darwin

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Speaker 1: is on the recovery. So the overall metric quite positive,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, we're quite happy to see some

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Speaker 1: of the particular initiatives that we've been working closely with

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Speaker 1: the government on in the budget continuing so territory tourism

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Speaker 1: vouches over the wet season or the low season in

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Speaker 1: Central Australia that's twofold. We saw the benefit that households

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Speaker 1: got out of that getting out and about, but we

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Speaker 1: also think that will help iron out our seasonality and

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Speaker 1: our workforce problems over time and you know, hopefully more

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Speaker 1: permanent jobs and less casual if we're not so boom

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Speaker 1: and bust every year.

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Speaker 2: Yea tourism sector and that is an area that's obviously

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Speaker 2: been a concern those jobs before we talk more about that.

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Speaker 2: What were some of those positives for the hospitality industry yep,

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Speaker 2: So along with.

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Speaker 1: Our tourism cousins, it was increase for that wet season

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Speaker 1: voucher for us all also importantly five million dollars for instance,

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Speaker 1: state tourism incentives as well, retention of a lot of

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Speaker 1: the successful programs like the visitor Experience upgrade, and very

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Speaker 1: pleasingly for us those roadhouses and wayside inns. Really look

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Speaker 1: forward to see the business operators down there think their

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Speaker 1: teeth into that and see what better options we can

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Speaker 1: put on the highways and the corridors for locals and

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Speaker 1: tourists to enjoy. So yeah, quite positive all round.

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Speaker 2: Well, we know that there are some areas of concern

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Speaker 2: for you at the moment, but and they are obviously

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Speaker 2: filling those jobs. Seven thousand of them was the number

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Speaker 2: that had been touted just a little while ago. How

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Speaker 2: are things going in that space?

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Speaker 1: Ah, Look, it's handfuls at a time. There are some

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Speaker 1: success stories. We had the opportunity the Prime ministers up

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Speaker 1: last week and copped it from with both barrels from

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Speaker 1: a bunch of operators in the theroism and hospitality space.

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Speaker 1: We are hoping that the federal government can see their

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Speaker 1: way clear of some short sharp visa relief changes which

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Speaker 1: would really improve our situation up here for non Australians

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Speaker 1: that are already in the country, so you know, not

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Speaker 1: identifying any COVID risk with international travel or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: We just met with Minister Robert Now he is in

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Speaker 1: charge the TAM's made it quite clear he's got to

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Speaker 1: try and drive down the unemployment rate. There are too

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Speaker 1: many territories on the unemployment list. We are getting calls

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Speaker 1: every time I raised this topic on your station. Quite rightly,

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Speaker 1: you know there are people that are finding it difficult

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Speaker 1: to be placed into work, so we've got a role

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Speaker 1: to play in that. We don't shy away from it.

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Speaker 1: We do need people to be flexible about when they

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Speaker 1: can work and the jobs they're willing to do. Though

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Speaker 1: as well, I'd.

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Speaker 2: Say, Alex, are there any areas where the budget fell

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Speaker 2: short for your industry yesterday?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: So you're happy with.

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Speaker 1: It all we are. You know, there was no additional

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Speaker 1: costs on households, which impacts our consumption and demand. There

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Speaker 1: was no additional costs on any businesses in our industry

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Speaker 1: or any industry for that matter, with the exception of

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Speaker 1: the corporate bookies. They're paying a little bit more and

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Speaker 1: that's been flagged for three or four years now since

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Speaker 1: the langle Out Review put it on the table. So

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Speaker 1: I understand that that sector came to an agreement with

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Speaker 1: the government on it. So there was definitely no tax

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Speaker 1: nasties for families, households or businesses to wake up up to.

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Speaker 1: I do share we Greg and the Minerals Council saying

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Speaker 1: you know where we are right now in this time.

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Speaker 1: We've seen an improvement, We're on the rebuild. We've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of work to do still, but let's just

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Speaker 1: crack on and do it well.

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Speaker 2: Alex Bruce, it is always good to catch up with

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Speaker 2: you Hospitality mt CEO, and we might talk again in

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Speaker 2: the very near future and talk a little bit further

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Speaker 2: about where those jobs are at. And also, like you said,

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Speaker 2: that positivity that we saw over the weekend with that

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Speaker 2: Carl Cox concert. It was certainly a busy weekend, ih

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Speaker 2: wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: Just good seeing the town alive again. A bit more

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Speaker 1: clothing wouldn't go astray.

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Speaker 2: Though, A bit more wash clothing, clothing, Oh, clothing. You

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Speaker 2: sound sound a bit old fashioned there, Alex Broce, good

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Speaker 2: on you mate, Thank you