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Speaker 1: We know that yesterday obviously the announcement was made by

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Speaker 1: the Chief Minister Michael Gunner as well as the Chief

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Speaker 1: Health Officer Hugh Hegy, that we will now have the

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Speaker 1: additional measure in place for territorians or anybody for that matter,

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Speaker 1: signing in to different establishments, whether it's a hospitality venue

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Speaker 1: or whether it is a beauty salon, if you're going

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Speaker 1: to be there for longer than fifteen minutes, you will

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Speaker 1: need to provide your details now. It is all part

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Speaker 1: of that contact tracing and it's something that we've spoken

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Speaker 1: about last week when the AMA President, doctor Robert Parker

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Speaker 1: joined us on the show and said that he did

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Speaker 1: feel that as those borders open up, we need to

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Speaker 1: have the additional safeguards in place. Now joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line to talk about this is Hospitality NT General

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Speaker 1: Manager Alex Bruce. Good morning to you, Alex.

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Speaker 2: Gooday, Kertie. Happy cup Day?

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Speaker 1: Oh who doesn't love Cup Day? And I tell you what, Alex,

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Speaker 1: I think we're going to have more people out here

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Speaker 1: at the Very Springs Tavern than what they've got at

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Speaker 1: Flemington today.

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Speaker 2: Biggest crowds in the nation up here.

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Speaker 1: How good is it?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 2: Very very good.

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Speaker 3: Crop there from down the road, a lot of venues

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Speaker 3: around town that people can pop into hopefully and catch

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Speaker 3: the race well.

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Speaker 1: And it is all about sort of supporting those hospitality

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Speaker 1: venues and all of our venues around the territory as well.

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Speaker 1: As you and I have discussed on numerous occasions, it's

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Speaker 1: been a tough year, there's no other way to put it.

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Speaker 1: But today is a day where you can go and

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Speaker 1: obviously enjoy the races on the big screen, or go

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Speaker 1: and enjoy the crocodile races, the frog races, whatever you're into,

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Speaker 1: but you can also go and support one of our

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Speaker 1: local venues here in the territory.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: And this year particularly, you know, twenty twenty is a

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Speaker 3: year a lot of us would like to forget, but

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Speaker 3: I think very few will. You're going to see history

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Speaker 3: today run down at Flemington there without the crowd. It

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Speaker 3: would be nice to know where you were enjoying it

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Speaker 3: yourself with friends and family while you watch that race,

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Speaker 3: and support a venue while you're at it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, it is a good time to support

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Speaker 1: our local venues now, Alex, you and I spoke last

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Speaker 1: week about this additional measure which the AMA was asking

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Speaker 1: for when it comes to you know, those borders opening,

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Speaker 1: people being able to move more freely around the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory and really getting people to either have a QR

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Speaker 1: code or signing in when they go out and about

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Speaker 1: no doubt, yesterday you guys were quite supportive of the

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Speaker 1: announcement made by the Chief Health Officer.

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Speaker 3: Look, we are Huhegy, as I mentioned last week, Doctor Huggy.

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Speaker 3: He's been working with us over the past few months

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Speaker 3: as we reopened, you know, literally making himself available, going

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Speaker 3: to different venues and saying cables this way, yes, tables

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Speaker 3: like that. No, it really has been a proactive approach

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Speaker 3: by the government, both from the health perspective and got

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Speaker 3: to say police as well. You heard Police Commissioner Talky

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Speaker 3: yesterday say, you know, this isn't about heading in with

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Speaker 3: and the public use to these systems. Obviously, if anyone's

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Speaker 3: going to completely start FuMB their nose at it, that's

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Speaker 3: a different story. But you know, we are all working

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Speaker 2: We think that that should be the appropriate thing that

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Speaker 2: we do.

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Speaker 1: Alex how is it going to work from your perspective,

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Speaker 1: From the hospitality perspective, ill look.

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Speaker 3: At there will be many different QR code systems, technology

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Speaker 3: across the territory. There is no mandated single system that

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Speaker 3: the government is advocating, which makes sense because if you

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Speaker 3: think it's somewhere like Discovery Nightclub, they've already had an

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Speaker 3: ID scanning system and a thumb print system for years.

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Speaker 2: They can track.

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Speaker 3: Everyone that comes in, how long they're there, when they leave,

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Speaker 3: so they've already got that system. So it's good that

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Speaker 3: we're not being forced to adopt a different system. But

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Speaker 3: we do that said we think this is going to

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Speaker 3: be here for twelve plus months, we would be supportive

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Speaker 3: of the government creating a system that keeps your data secure,

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Speaker 3: pre filled so that you don't have to keep punching

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Speaker 2: They can store the.

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Speaker 3: Data so whatever is the required health time then destroy

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Speaker 3: it and we think that probably is the best way

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Speaker 3: to ensure customer and public privacy is addressed well.

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Speaker 1: And surely they don't even have to reinvent the wheel

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Speaker 1: here I mean, we've got other states that are already

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Speaker 2: We That's it.

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Speaker 3: My understanding is the Act government's already done that. Victorian

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Speaker 3: government looking very closely at what they're going to do.

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Speaker 3: But there are off the shelf, ready to go systems.

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Speaker 3: And we keep reiterating a notepattern pen works too.

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Speaker 2: If you're a.

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Speaker 3: Remote road out in the middle of nowhere, you're probably

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Speaker 3: not can invest in technology if you don't even get

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Speaker 3: phone reception. So we will absolutely adhere to it and

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Speaker 3: come thirtieth of November when it kicks in, will be

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Speaker 3: the other thing we think is, you know, some of

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Speaker 2: To Lichfield out of service or whatever.

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Speaker 3: If there was ever a contact tracing event, you have

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Speaker 3: to chase each individual venue for their data. So again,

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Speaker 3: if this is all held by Health and their contact

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Speaker 3: tracing teams, how much quicker will that be to nit

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Speaker 1: Mart I reckon. That's a very good point mate one

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Speaker 1: which isn't lost on me, and I'm sure it won't

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Speaker 1: be lost on our listeners this morning. Do you think

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Speaker 1: that this technology is going to be expensive? And if

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Speaker 1: the government doesn't go down that path of producing a

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Speaker 1: an expensive exercise for different businesses to implement?

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Speaker 3: No, it's not. There's some free versions out there now,

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Speaker 3: and any system that a business does adopt, they are

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Speaker 3: responsible for the privacy maintenance. And I don't want to

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Speaker 3: suggest that we're not going to do our utmost, but

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Speaker 3: many times we're going to be buzzing in and out

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Speaker 3: is being collected off the public.

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Speaker 2: We're supportive of it.

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Speaker 3: We do think it's appropriate given the pandemic we're going through,

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Speaker 3: but we really do think this would be a better

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Speaker 3: the best chance to contact trace Alex.

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Speaker 1: Has there been any other concerns right by venues at

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Speaker 1: this stage following on from that announcement yesterday, Uh no, by.

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Speaker 3: And large not. We had had a heads up that

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Speaker 3: m A last week the Broyal Parker was very very timely,

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Speaker 3: so it was good for the public to be made

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Speaker 3: aware of what what the moves are. We've we've all

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Speaker 3: it ahead of it coming into play, so there should

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Speaker 3: be no surprises by the end of the month. I

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Speaker 3: think what you're going to see is more and more

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Speaker 3: businesses will start rolling their systems out now to gear

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Speaker 3: it's not onerous. From our advice from Interstate. Some of

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Speaker 3: fortunately we haven't had to go back into yet, if

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Speaker 3: at all, they're the ones that really do impact viability

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Speaker 3: for business far more than this.

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Speaker 2: Leave your details at the door.

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Speaker 1: Yeah well, Hospitality NT General manager Alex Bruce made always

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Speaker 1: good to catch up with you. Watch your tip for

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Speaker 1: Melbourne Cup Day.

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Speaker 3: I'll look over and put any sects on yet, but

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Speaker 3: I will. But the awful favorite is that Prince of

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Speaker 3: Aram particularly back in the female jockey out of the same.

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Speaker 2: Barrier as Michelle Payne managed to take home. So that's the.

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Speaker 3: Tip I'll be.

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Speaker 1: That's who I'll be cheering for as well. And Maddie

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Speaker 1: Hepworth told us a little earlier in the news this

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Speaker 1: morning that apparently there is a central Australian connection as

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Speaker 1: well with that one. So let's hope it goes well.

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Speaker 1: But you never know what's going to happen on Melbourne

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Speaker 1: Cup Day, do you.

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Speaker 3: That's it and enjoy that spicy schnitty Hi will, mate.

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Speaker 1: I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. Alex Bruce, always good

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Speaker 1: to catch up. Thanks so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: He's Katie are the best?

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Speaker 1: You are listening to Mix one oh four point nine's

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Speaker 1: three sixty