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Speaker 1: Well, he joins us on the line right now, the

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Speaker 1: CEO of the Darwin City Council, Scott Waters, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Hey Katie. How are you going?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good mate, you'reuck in two locations, set on the

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Speaker 1: news and then here having a chat to us about.

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Speaker 2: The book where everywhere. Yeah, isn't it great?

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Speaker 1: It is really good. And I'll tell you what these

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Speaker 1: my Darwin vouchers, they do get snapped up incredibly quickly.

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Speaker 1: Talk us through the next round. When does it start?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so midday on Thursday, we'll be able to load

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Speaker 2: up the system with fifty dollars to begin with. We'll

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Speaker 2: run that through until that runs out. We'll then reload

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Speaker 2: the following week from Thursday. Again, what we're really trying

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Speaker 2: to achieve is leading into the weekends to be able

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Speaker 2: to bolster particularly our hospitality sector, but of course across

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Speaker 2: our time municipality, but really getting in and helping those

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Speaker 2: that were heavily affected by the lockdown.

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Speaker 1: I reckon this is a good thing to do, a

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Speaker 1: good thing for business. Like you said, there are so

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Speaker 1: many businesses that have been impacted by the lockdowns, and

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Speaker 1: those lockdowns into state as well have such an impact

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Speaker 1: in terms of just not getting the same visitor numbers

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Speaker 1: as what we would expect and hope for.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right, and that's why we're really looking

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Speaker 2: at that hospitality sector and wanting to be able to

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Speaker 2: make sure that we can target and help out those

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Speaker 2: guys as much as we can. Because it is that

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Speaker 2: dry season. We should have our southern visitors with us

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Speaker 2: and they just can't get out, and we know all

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Speaker 2: the reasons why, but we need to be able to

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Speaker 2: do everything we can to keep our businesses sticking over.

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Speaker 1: And so Scott first round this Thursday, and it will

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Speaker 1: run basically until it runs out, and then there'll be

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Speaker 1: another round on the second of September.

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Speaker 2: That's right exactly. So we've run it over two weeks.

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Speaker 2: We had a bit of a look at different dates

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Speaker 2: and times, but we just thought those would create some

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Speaker 2: real impact. Gives enough time to be able to talk

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Speaker 2: about it and then let everybody know it's happening. But

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Speaker 2: then ye give two bites of the cherry. And we

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Speaker 2: also have some further funding available and reserve is there's

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Speaker 2: some other lockdown that may happen in the future.

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Speaker 1: Now, for those out there listening who've maybe not been

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Speaker 1: able to you know, to take advantage or have a

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Speaker 1: crack at using these my Darwin vouchers before. How exactly

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Speaker 1: does it work?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, bog on to the mydain website. So it's a

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Speaker 2: website application, and what it does do is provides a

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Speaker 2: point of sale discount, so those businesses that have registered,

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Speaker 2: and it really depends on the quantum of your spend.

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Speaker 2: Anything up to forty dollars you'll get in return. So

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Speaker 2: the more you spend, the more you get back. But

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Speaker 2: what we're trying to do with this is simulate extra spend.

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Speaker 2: So for those that generally go and get that morning coffee,

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Speaker 2: this gives an opportunity to be able to spend a

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Speaker 2: little bit more, be able to provide a crossgon or

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Speaker 2: a donut or any of those types of things, and

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Speaker 2: then to be able to have that return back to

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Speaker 2: you as a discount at the point of sale. The

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Speaker 2: trader has the ability then to be able to sell

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Speaker 2: more of their stock. The person that's the consumer has

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Speaker 2: the ability to buy more, but it's not costing them

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Speaker 2: as much. And then ultimately we're creating a nice secut

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Speaker 2: of economy there where we're stimulating what we're doing throughout

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Speaker 2: our time municipality and getting the economy moving.

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Speaker 1: Now, do you have to be a Darwin resident to

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Speaker 1: be able to get your hands on one of these vouchers?

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Speaker 1: Or can anybody?

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Speaker 2: No, anybody can. So anybody's got the ability to be

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Speaker 2: able to log onto the mydeln website register your details.

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Speaker 2: You'll then be able to use that at any of

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Speaker 2: the stores using it online. This or what we do

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Speaker 2: want to see is go to a store with the door.

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Speaker 2: Make sure that you've got the ability to be able

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Speaker 2: to work with our business community and see them direct.

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Speaker 2: So we're steering away from online and that anybody has

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Speaker 2: that ability to be able to use that because I

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Speaker 2: think any business trader would say that the money from

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Speaker 2: anyone is as good as anyone else. So we don't

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Speaker 2: want to restrict it and we want to be able

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Speaker 2: to make sure the entire economy gets to benefit from it.

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Speaker 1: Well, Scott, good to catch up with you. Really good

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Speaker 1: to hear that this is happening again. I know plenty

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Speaker 1: of people are going to be pleased to hear that

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Speaker 1: the my Darwin vouches that there's two more rounds and

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Speaker 1: hopefully everybody gets out and really supports our local businesses.

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Speaker 2: Thanks coatie, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Scott Waters there the CEO of the City of Darwin,

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Speaker 1: and and yeah it is good news. I think. If

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Speaker 1: you do want some further info, you can head to

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Speaker 1: my dot Darwin, dot NT, dot gov, dot AU