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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line is well known businessman and

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Speaker 1: restaurant to Jason Hannah. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Jasy, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well mate? How are you going

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Speaker 1: and how your business is faring throughout this lockdown?

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Speaker 2: Mate, I'm counting down the I'm counting down the days

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Speaker 2: now tomorrow. We're getting pretty excited to reinvite people back

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Speaker 2: into the venues all over day on. So fingers crossed,

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Speaker 2: things are going well, I've got a lucky feeling. But yeah, look,

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Speaker 2: you know everyone's a little bit sort of well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they're curious what's happening next.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're all feeling a bit that way

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Speaker 1: no matter what industry you're in, but particularly you know

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Speaker 1: when your industry, well, when it's really felt when you're

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Speaker 1: in a lockdown. You know, there's no doubt that restaurants

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Speaker 1: feel it, probably more than most given the fact that

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Speaker 1: you're not able to have people in there. I know

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Speaker 1: that some of those takeaway services have been a real

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Speaker 1: hit through the lockdown period that we'd previously had, and

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Speaker 1: it previously meant that you could also sort of do

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Speaker 1: some takeaway cocktails and things like that as well. But

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Speaker 1: has that been the case this time around.

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Speaker 2: No, No, Look, unfortunately that was that service or that

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Speaker 2: ability to be able to do that was removed from

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Speaker 2: us back in April. Why. I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think you know we're in this scenario

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Speaker 2: because it was always a case of if, you know,

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Speaker 2: when not if so, you know, being able to provide

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Speaker 2: that service not only not only in this lockdown, but

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Speaker 2: even beforehand, really would have been beneficial to all these

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Speaker 2: venues I'd like to see come back. I think it

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Speaker 2: was a zero risk offering. You know, there was no

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Speaker 2: complaint about it. And the reality is, you know, we're

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Speaker 2: still dealing with COVID. This isn't going away. So I know,

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Speaker 2: the guys in licensing there, the directors, I mean, they're

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Speaker 2: all under the pump. But you know, perhaps if this

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Speaker 2: wasn't removed so hastily, then we know, we wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: having this conversation now.

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Speaker 1: So really, Jace, you reckon it is time for them

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Speaker 1: to re look at this, you know, relook at and

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Speaker 1: actually allowing this to happen again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to me, it's common sense approach. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 2: they've managed to do it for the waterfront, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean if we were were able to do it

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Speaker 2: just our ability to transition to the services that we

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Speaker 2: were offering previously. We just meant that I would have

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Speaker 2: had more people employed and working, because the reality is

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Speaker 2: a lot of these people I've got no other income.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now, Jason, I know that you said that that

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Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to remain positive. I think everybody

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Speaker 1: is at this point in time. But you know, to

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Speaker 1: be fair, you also had been preparing for a bumper

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Speaker 1: week the first week of the school holidays, and really

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Speaker 1: you've probably got a lot of stock that's sort of

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Speaker 1: sitting there waiting to be eaten.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for reminding me, Catie. Sorry. Luckily the food takeaway

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Speaker 2: allows us to move some of those perishables, you know.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm looking at my last week alcohol bill,

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Speaker 2: you know, and and going, oh my god, what am

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Speaker 2: I going to do? You know, like we're going to

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Speaker 2: pay for this now, so you know, and that was

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Speaker 2: why they turned on that ability to be able to

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Speaker 2: serve you know, a limited amount of liquor, you know,

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Speaker 2: at a set price for for with takeaway meals will

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Speaker 2: allow us to move some of that that dead stock.

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Speaker 2: But look, I am feeling lucky. I'm counting down. We

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Speaker 2: got one day to go, one day to go before

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Speaker 2: we get on the deers.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's it. We're all hoping, Jason, would it help

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Speaker 1: if I ordered like luxA for lunch and for dinner,

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Speaker 1: you know, or to take away both of those times.

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Speaker 2: Look, there's plenty of people out there that are serving

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Speaker 2: fantastic food and they're all offering takeaway and they could

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Speaker 2: all do with your visits. So you know, don't let me,

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Speaker 2: don't let me hog it all, you know, share and

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Speaker 2: share it around. But hey, you know, the lax of

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Speaker 2: Festival is coming up again. We're you know, we're we're

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Speaker 2: tweaking our recipe a little bit. We did come second

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Speaker 2: to the deck Bar last year, by the way, so

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Speaker 2: you know we're aiming for the for the number one

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Speaker 2: spot this time.

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Speaker 1: Well, and my producer Ronnie did just tell me that

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Speaker 1: she ordered luxA last night, luxA from Chao. So we're

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Speaker 1: all doing our bit making sure that we eat out

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Speaker 1: in order our takeaway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I mean, you know, if if things work

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Speaker 2: out well and we're and we're open again on you know, tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: then you know we can we can move forward. If

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Speaker 2: it turns out that we're not. Well, then we'll get

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Speaker 2: some really serious conversations that need to behave because the

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Speaker 2: last time we did it, you know, this was a

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Speaker 2: that was a federally mandated lockdown. You know, there was

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Speaker 2: all this this support that came through from the federal

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Speaker 2: government as well as the local government. You know, there

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Speaker 2: was also that that was that hope when we first started.

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Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, well, you know, things just aren't the same.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and your spot on. You know, we heard from

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Speaker 1: Alex Bruce a little bit earlier this morning as well

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Speaker 1: that really people do need a bit of notice also

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Speaker 1: in terms of opening back up, need to have a

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Speaker 1: bit of a fairer idea hopefully today as to which

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Speaker 1: direction we're going in, so that you can prepare either way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, allen to the guys, asked Italian Tea. You know,

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Speaker 2: I mean we're there, a godfriend without them fighting for us,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I know that they're pushing for

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Speaker 2: the liquor to be return to restaurants, you know, during

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Speaker 2: this lockdown. You know, my hat goes off to that team.

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Speaker 2: Without them, we discrewed.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jason Hannah, it's always good to catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: Look after yourself, mate, and let's hope that by one

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Speaker 1: o'clock tomorrow, well we're all out and about again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I listen, if you see Hugh Hagy out there,

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Speaker 2: you know we're our is better than yours. To or

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Speaker 2: youth Southerners, make sure you don't shake your hand. No, ye,

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Speaker 2: I'm a bloody beer. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He's done a good job, there is no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: And it was you know, even yesterday you see him

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Speaker 1: get on there for that press conference and speaking language

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Speaker 1: to our indigenous territories in an effort to try to

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Speaker 1: make sure that you know, he can break down those

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Speaker 1: barriers and communicate with everyone.

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Speaker 2: Look, if anyone's ever met him, you'll actually just know

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Speaker 2: how amazing in an individual and what a gentleman he is.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, do yourself a favor one day. And if

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Speaker 2: you ever do see him, he's got a fairly distinguishable

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Speaker 2: head and he does like a beer. You know. Go

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Speaker 2: as to say, I would say thank you and chatting one.

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Speaker 1: Good on you jas good to catch up with you

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Speaker 1: mate

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Speaker 2: Thanks mite, Thank you