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Speaker 1: Well known business owner Jason Hannah. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Jason, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Mate. What's going on? I got it. We've got an

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Speaker 1: email that you're a message that you've sent through saying

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Speaker 1: that it's looking as though the Waterfront's family friendly, tourist

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Speaker 1: friendly beach club isn't going to be able to happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, that's certainly one of the after effects

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Speaker 2: of the changes that come in at midnight. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, for those out in the suburbs as well,

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Speaker 2: you're unfortunately not going to be able to get you

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Speaker 2: to get a cocktail or a glass or a bottle

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Speaker 2: of wine or a beer delivered with your burger or

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Speaker 2: your laxa. You know, as we know that during COVID,

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Speaker 2: we were given the special powers to be able to

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Speaker 2: serve takeaway liquor with takeaway food, which just turned out

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Speaker 2: to be not only a god send for businesses, but

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to sort of show that, you know, like

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Speaker 2: that it wasn't such a big bad demon I seeing that,

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Speaker 2: and that we didn't really have a problem with liquor.

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Speaker 2: And you know, one of the great things that came

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Speaker 2: out of it was the beach club down at the

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Speaker 2: water front. I'm sure we can all agree that we've

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Speaker 2: enjoyed some amazing times down there when the weather's good.

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Speaker 1: Mate, What's how come the government has decided to change this?

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Speaker 1: Did they? Did they think all right, well we're not

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Speaker 1: I don't know what did they think or what have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I'm not entirely sure. It always was a

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Speaker 2: week by week rolling decision, so you know, I can't

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Speaker 2: speak for them, but look, you know, there were a

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Speaker 2: lot of great things that came out of COVID, amongst

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Speaker 2: all the negative and and obviously things like the beach

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Speaker 2: club for the waterfront was a great thing, you know,

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Speaker 2: But for me, one of the great things as well was,

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Speaker 2: you know, just the ability to see the government being

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Speaker 2: able to make changes to rules and regulations with the

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Speaker 2: flick of a pen. So look, I know that, you know,

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Speaker 2: there are members of government out there that the supportive

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Speaker 2: that that we're going to see some common percents prevail.

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Speaker 2: And you know, and obviously talking to people like you

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Speaker 2: and trying to get a little bit of public support

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Speaker 2: certainly doesn't help.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it doesn't. That's going to say hopefully, well,

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Speaker 1: hopefully it does help Jakes. Hopefully hopefully we're able to

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Speaker 1: help you in some way. But so when do these

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Speaker 1: changes like come into effect? So when do we basically

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Speaker 1: reverse what we've been able to do now for quite

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Speaker 1: a while.

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Speaker 2: Oh, midnight tonight, look until effectively effectively, as of midnight tonight,

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Speaker 2: it's all over. So, you know, come on down to

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Speaker 2: the waterfront, lament with a pinicolada. You know, you can

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Speaker 2: maybe float a candle and say goodbye to any hope

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Speaker 2: of the beach club coming back to twenty twenty one. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: what were you tourists that are coming to Darwin? We

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Speaker 2: knew that this is something you would have loved. But listen,

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Speaker 2: I am quietly confident that we can come to a solution.

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Speaker 2: But it doesn't have it to give it a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a push along water.

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Speaker 1: I agree, you know, I actually think that I thought

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Speaker 1: it was a wonderful thing that the waterfront is implemented

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Speaker 1: down there, being able to sort of you know, that

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Speaker 1: beach club environment, being able to have the family there,

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Speaker 1: they can have a play on the lawns. You know,

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Speaker 1: no one's sort of drinking irresponsibly or anything, but being

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Speaker 1: able to have a couple of cocktails with a friend

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Speaker 1: or and you know while the kids are playing. To me,

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Speaker 1: was a really nice thing to be able to do.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think, you know, the Chief Minister

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Speaker 2: has always that, you know, it is about anything that

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Speaker 2: we do is about improving the last style of territorium

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Speaker 2: and minimizing harm. Yeah, now, you know, you know, being

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Speaker 2: able to get a burger with my beer certainly improves

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Speaker 2: my lifestyle, I can tell you. But also you know,

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Speaker 2: being able to go down there to the beautiful waterfront

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Speaker 2: and sit on the grass, particularly when you know, we

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Speaker 2: know that during jurists too, during terroist season, a lot

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Speaker 2: of those restaurants are full, so you know, it basically

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Speaker 2: seems a great picture.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: We've just had some amazing comments from people from all

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Speaker 2: over the country going, how bloody good is this? You

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Speaker 2: can't even do this and Risbon or the Gold Coast

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Speaker 2: so you know, I think it's imperative that that we

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Speaker 2: you know, we see that continue.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, well we'll continue to talk about it throughout

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Speaker 1: the morning, Jason, just to point it out for our

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Speaker 1: listeners as well. So not only is that the concern,

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Speaker 1: but also that delivery like the fact that people were

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Speaker 1: able to to there and also have their cocktail with

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Speaker 1: their food that's stopping as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's based all around, based.

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Speaker 3: All around that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, you know, I mean I'd hate to

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Speaker 2: see just a solution. As you know, I've got venues

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Speaker 2: the amazing chow as a selfless bug down there at

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Speaker 2: the waterfront, but I've got venues outside of it who

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Speaker 2: still want to be able to keep this going. I've

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Speaker 2: got delivery drivers that rely on that to that, you know,

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Speaker 2: basically it's their job.

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Speaker 1: So oh well, Jason, I really appre you making us

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Speaker 1: aware of this, because I certainly wasn't aware that this

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Speaker 1: was coming to an end. From midnight Tonight.

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Speaker 3: Three sixty with Katie Wolf. Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.

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Speaker 3: You are our eyes and ears in the Territory Mix

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Speaker 3: one oh four point nine.

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Speaker 1: If you've been listening to us throughout the morning, you

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Speaker 1: would have heard well known business owner and restauranteur Jason

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Speaker 1: Hannah was on the show about an hour ago and

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Speaker 1: had revealed to us that we've now got a bit

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Speaker 1: of a situation not only well, firstly down at the

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Speaker 1: waterfront where if you are somebody who's been enjoying the

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Speaker 1: something to eat, a bit of takeaway food and maybe

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Speaker 1: a takeaway cocktail while the kids have a bit of

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Speaker 1: a play on the lawns, or while you sit down

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Speaker 1: there with friends, as of midnight tonight, that's no longer

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Speaker 1: going to be able to happen. But in addition to that,

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Speaker 1: now secondary to that, there's also the situation now with

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Speaker 1: all of those wonderful restaurants that have been able to

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Speaker 1: deliver food to Territorian's homes. We'll be able to continue

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Speaker 1: to deliver that food, but they're no longer going to

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Speaker 1: they have been able to do over the last twelve months.

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Speaker 1: Now joining me in the studio is of course, the

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Speaker 1: general manager of the Darwin Waterfront, Sam Burke. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 3: Sam, good okad, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Sam, great to speak with you. Now, obviously I'm not

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Speaker 1: issue with the you know, the restaurants and their delivery

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Speaker 1: outside of the waterfront situation.

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Speaker 3: Well, I can say I've spoken to government this morning

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Speaker 3: and they are working on that broader issue. There's a

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Speaker 3: Liquor Act review between June and October this year, and

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Speaker 3: I've been told that this will be part of that.

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Speaker 3: I can be on that. I can't really provide anything.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's that's okay. You can of course, though, let

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Speaker 1: us know what's going on down at the waterfront. And Mate,

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Speaker 1: I've got to say I was a bit surprised to

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, the beach club and the takeaway with food at

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Speaker 3: the waterfront has been fantastic. It's revolutionized the experience down there.

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Speaker 3: We put out sun lounges. I've spoken to you a

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Speaker 3: lot of times, so it's starting to sound like tragic.

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Speaker 3: So I think how many Kish tacos and cocksails is

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Speaker 3: Katie and Sam have on the weekend but it's great

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Speaker 3: and people have embraced it. The best thing is not

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Speaker 3: a single incident has occurred. It's worked really well. It's

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Speaker 3: been embraced by the community. Even better, tourists have flopped there.

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Speaker 3: They've commented it's amazing, it's unique there, I say, an

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Speaker 3: iconic experience, particularly when it's winter in Melbourne and you're

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Speaker 3: sitting on a sun lounge in Darwin enjoying a cocktail

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Speaker 3: and a bite to eat. Well, I mean, it's great.

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Speaker 3: This is everything that Darwin wants to present to the country.

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Speaker 3: We want domestic travelers seeing Darwin as a tropical holiday

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Speaker 3: destination and locals want to feel like we're having that

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Speaker 3: tropical holiday at home, and this delivered all of that,

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Speaker 3: you know, as you've said, and as Jason said. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: the ability to do that comes to an end at

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Speaker 1: For the weekend, because we are talking so nice, not

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Speaker 1: for our Easter long weekend.

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Speaker 3: Midnight tonight will be the end of it. I think

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Speaker 3: Jason and Robbo and other you know, hot Tomale Snapper

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Speaker 3: come and have a cocktail tonight because that will be

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Speaker 3: the end of it in the short term. But we're

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Speaker 3: But it's one of those things that I can understand

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Speaker 3: the concerns of our retailers because every bit counts, and

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Speaker 3: as Queensland shows us, things can change quickly and you've

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Speaker 3: got to while the sunshine.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, you know, I will maybe be a little bit

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Speaker 1: less diplomatic about it than what you're being and I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to put you in a difficult situation, but honestly,

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Speaker 1: we are in a situation where it's been such a

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Speaker 1: to keep those businesses employing locals as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: just cannot understand if there's not been incidents down at

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Speaker 1: the waterfront of antisocial behavior or bad behavior. Why we

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Speaker 3: I think it boils down to how do we allow

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Speaker 3: it under the laws as they are at the moment.

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Speaker 3: What I can say, and you know this isn't a

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Speaker 3: difficult spot for me. The local member and Minister Paul

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Speaker 3: Kirby has been straight on the phone to me. I

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Speaker 3: know ministers have been trying to eat and find solutions

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Speaker 3: to this as a matter of urgency. But it's one

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Speaker 3: of those things that, as Jason said, COVID allowed government

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Speaker 3: and all these agencies to be so nimble and come

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Speaker 3: up with solutions when we went into shutdown of hospitality

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Speaker 3: and the legacy of that has been this new normal

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Speaker 3: that we've all been enjoying, which includes things like food

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Speaker 3: at this point now where it's like, well, what's the

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Speaker 3: this stuff can continue. We know that it's now essential.

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Speaker 3: We actually think that it's part of this cultural shift

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Speaker 1: May one hundred percent agrew. If we can push those

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Speaker 3: I'll be there. It's going to be amazing exactly.

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Speaker 1: Seems he's confirmed that it's going to be a good

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Speaker 1: And there's still like you said, you can still go something.

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Speaker 3: I should have mentioned that that's operating the whole time.

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Speaker 3: Well, Wavepoul's and look we've still got all of our

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Speaker 3: and this is the beginning of the dry Let's get

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Speaker 3: Easter Saturday and Sunday ten.

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Speaker 1: Good on your Sam Burke. Always good to catch up mate,

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Speaker 1: General Manager of the Darlin Waterfront. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: again very soon.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Katie.