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Speaker 1: Well, as you heard on the show yesterday, there's been

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Speaker 1: some further issues when it comes to fireworks for Territory Day.

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Speaker 1: We know that more than one one hundred tons of

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Speaker 1: fireworks destined for the Northern Territory for Territory Day had

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Speaker 1: last week been seized by New South Wales authorities. Now

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Speaker 1: the Chief Minister joined us on the show yesterday. She said,

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Speaker 1: then they got through New South Wales, but now they're

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Speaker 1: being held up by Queensland. She's confident that the issue

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Speaker 1: is going to hopefully be sorted by the end of

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Speaker 1: the week. But joining me on the line is one

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Speaker 1: of the suppliers, Fusion Fireworks owner Luke Kardi.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Luke, Morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: It's in a while, Oh it has mate. How are

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Speaker 1: things going? I mean, has this ever happened before in

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Speaker 1: your time doing business in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: No, it's where I think we're a year off two

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Speaker 2: decades and it's the first time that we've come across

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Speaker 2: this hurdle right and with the previous eighteen years it

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Speaker 2: has been the status quo. We've done the same procedure

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Speaker 2: through New South Wales. So there's there's just there's a

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Speaker 2: definitely a conversation and discussion. You know, once once the

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Speaker 2: dust settles and the gunpowder smoke settles, so we can

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Speaker 2: see where it went pair shape this year.

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Speaker 1: So look from your perspective, what's the latest. Where are

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Speaker 1: your fireworks?

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Speaker 2: The fire works are still in New South Wales. There

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Speaker 2: was a very productive meeting yesterday between the regulators which

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Speaker 2: were NT Queensland, New South Wales. They've formulated a solution.

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Speaker 2: So they're just finalizing, finalizing some details and they're going

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Speaker 2: to be doing some cross checks with the containers and

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Speaker 2: if those cross checks or check out, it'll be on

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Speaker 2: its way to northern territories. So the NT regulators being

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Speaker 2: empty works eight they've done a fantastic job and they've

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Speaker 2: been working around the clock with the interstate regulators to

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Speaker 2: get this happening.

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Speaker 1: It just sounds wild, Like you think to yourself, you yourself,

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Speaker 1: you've been doing this for like eighteen years and it's

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Speaker 1: the first time it's happened. You just sort of wonder

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Speaker 1: why it's broken down this year or whether somebody's you know,

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Speaker 1: gotten a bit sort of I don't know, heavy handed

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Speaker 1: with their authority. It's it's an interesting scenario for us

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Speaker 1: all to be in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd say interesting would be Yeah. Interesting definitely the word.

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Speaker 2: I don't really want to comment too much on it.

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Speaker 2: What I need to do is work with everyone to

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Speaker 2: ensure we get the product up to MTS Territorians can

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Speaker 2: and have some fun. Yeah, that's my primary objective at

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Speaker 2: this point in time.

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Speaker 1: Are you feeling more confident that they're going to arrive,

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Speaker 1: that those fireworks are going to arrive by the first

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Speaker 1: of job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look after yesterday's meeting, it was death and it

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Speaker 2: gave us some confidence, you know. But it is a

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Speaker 2: mammoth pass, you know. We're you know, cross checking one

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Speaker 2: hundred ton of fireworks, you know, and they're still more

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Speaker 2: on the way. It's just not our hundred tons. We

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Speaker 2: were just fortunate to be the first ones, you know,

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Speaker 2: out of the blocks and arrive into Australia earlier. You know.

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Speaker 2: There's another eight forty foot containers on their way in

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Speaker 2: in the next week or two. Wow.

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Speaker 1: So for you alone, for fusion fireworks, it's like one

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Speaker 1: hundred ton that you are waiting on.

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Speaker 2: For you guys, we're at about eighty six tons. And

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Speaker 2: there was another importer on that same vessel as us.

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Speaker 2: He's he's so he's part of that one hundred, and

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Speaker 2: there's a there's a couple more importers with their stock

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Speaker 2: due to arrive in the next you know, week or two,

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Speaker 2: so so hopefully hopefully everything's resolved prior to the other

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Speaker 2: shipments arriving for you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if and I know it does sound as

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Speaker 1: though everybody's working really constructively now and it's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: But if you know, if you're in a situation where

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Speaker 1: they weren't able to be transported here and weren't able

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Speaker 1: to come to the territory for territory day, like, what

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Speaker 1: kind of impact would that have had on your business?

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Speaker 2: What I'll do? It would sadden us because it's virtually

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Speaker 2: eighteen years and it's come to this. Obviously, those fireworks

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Speaker 2: there wouldn't be much of a massive market on it

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Speaker 2: for public displays, although they can be used for public displays,

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Speaker 2: so you know, they could be destroyed by authorities and

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Speaker 2: that would be industry wide. It wouldn't just happen to me.

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Speaker 2: It'd be devastating and probably essentially it would shut down

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Speaker 2: a company that's been paying their taxes for the past

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Speaker 2: eighteen years overnight, wouldn't recover from something like this if

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Speaker 2: you treated it as a standalone business.

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Speaker 1: Well, mate, let's hope it gets sorted sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: People are messaging through, they're saying, why can't they still arrive?

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Speaker 1: You know, they're trying to ruin our fun in other states.

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Speaker 2: We definitely we've got to put a big shout out

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Speaker 2: to the MT Regulator, MT Work Safe and Leah Leah,

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Speaker 2: chief Minister and the ministerial staff under her, because they

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Speaker 2: have been nonstar working to make this happen.

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Speaker 1: Good. Well, I'm pleased to hear it. Luke, I'm lovely

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Speaker 1: to talk to you mate. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: your time and let's hope it all gets sorted sooner

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Speaker 1: rather than later. Thank you, Katie, thank you