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Speaker 1: But one thing that maybe hasn't been reported as heavily

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Speaker 1: that's probably going to have quite a big impact on

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Speaker 1: a lot of us is the fact that there's going

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Speaker 1: to be well, going to the pub is going to

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Speaker 1: be getting potentially a little bit more expensive with alcohol

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Speaker 1: tax hikes taking effect yesterday. So drinkers are now going

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Speaker 1: to pay one hundred and one dollars and eighty five

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Speaker 1: cents in tax per liter of pure alcohol, which is

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Speaker 1: expected to increase the cost of a pint by about

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Speaker 1: ninety cents now. According to Sky News, Distillers and brewers

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Speaker 1: are warning that the tax scheme needs to change as

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Speaker 1: the costs are becoming prohibitive. The alcohol excise currently increases

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Speaker 1: automatically twice a year, indexed with inflation. Now joining us

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Speaker 1: on the line to give us their take on the

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Speaker 1: tax hike is Ian Sloan from the Very Springs Tavern.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, slowly, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: Katie will tell you.

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Speaker 2: Good mate, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: People are not going to be real happy though to

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Speaker 1: hear that the price of having a beer is going up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don off is going up as much as

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Speaker 3: that figure you just mentioned. I think for us it'll

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Speaker 3: be ten cents of schooner and maybe maybe twenty fifteen

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Speaker 3: twenty cents a pint, So I'm not sure where ninety

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Speaker 3: cents is coming from. Yeah, we certainly want to be

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Speaker 3: going up that much, but yeah, we will have to write,

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Speaker 3: we will have to increase our prices. We increase them

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Speaker 3: yesterday and it was the ten cents and fifteen twenty

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Speaker 3: cents on a pint.

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Speaker 1: Well, first off, I am very pleased to hear that

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Speaker 1: it's not as much as what had been reported nationally,

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Speaker 1: you know, no doubt though I suppose that over the

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Speaker 1: last few years it does seem to you know, the

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Speaker 1: cost of buying a pint or whatever your alcoholic beverage

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Speaker 1: of choice is, does seem to have increased. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, So we have these price rises twice a year

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Speaker 3: of February, and I think all this is the other

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Speaker 3: one and the last couple have been quite quite tough,

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Speaker 3: more for for the bottle shop than the pub. I

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Speaker 3: think the part we went up ten cents the last

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Speaker 3: time as well, but some of the thirty packs they've

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Speaker 3: begne and to go on up about a dollar fifty

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Speaker 3: two dollars from yesterday in the twenty four packs, probably

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Speaker 3: about a dollar or maybe fifty cents. So, yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: getting harder. It's getting harder, and you know, we try

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Speaker 3: and we try and not increases too much. We realize

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Speaker 3: a family part and we try and we try and

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Speaker 3: be fair with our price rises. We well, see, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're here to make money, so we're not we're not

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Speaker 3: profiteering from it. We just pass on whatever it's passed

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Speaker 3: on to us by suppliers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which I think is fair enough.

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Speaker 1: And and you know, anyone who knows you guys know

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Speaker 1: that you're good people. You're out there running a wonderful

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Speaker 1: it's it's being passed on well to absolutely everybody.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't like putting our prices up and it's

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Speaker 3: not nice thing to do. It's not nice at all.

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Speaker 3: But we know we're active in the community and we're

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Speaker 3: you know we'll work with suppliers to get for their

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Speaker 3: discouncil week we can you know, keep our prices fare

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Speaker 3: and but definitely not the ninety cents it was couted

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Speaker 1: No, I well, I'm pleased to hear that, Slinny. How

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Speaker 3: Pretty good out our way. It has dropped off in

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Speaker 3: March this year. So it'll be an early start again

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Speaker 3: this year. So our six or seven weeks and we

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Speaker 3: we're good. We've actually got a couple of tour of

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Speaker 3: uses coming out this afternoon from that cruise ship you

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Speaker 3: were just talking about, I think about a hundred hundred

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Speaker 3: people coming out this afternoon. So we've done nothing complain about.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that is really good to hear that they're actually

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Speaker 1: that they know a couple of bus loads of tourists

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Speaker 1: heading out from the cruise ship, and what an experience

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Speaker 1: for them to have heading out to the Berry Springs tavern.

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Speaker 2: It is a great place to go.

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Speaker 3: I know, I don't even pay you to say that that,

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Speaker 3: I just nicely to say that. No, it is. It's

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Speaker 3: a it's a great tub. We're very proud of it.

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Speaker 1: I want to shame, I mean want to show you

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Speaker 1: kind of the crocodile's there all the time for the

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Speaker 1: crock races, just for those tourists to see.

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Speaker 2: But you still got animals out there for people, don't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got the big crocoder, the back soft croc,

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Speaker 3: and the five meter croc. So where if if we've

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Speaker 3: got enough time, we'll take the tourists out today and

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Speaker 3: give him a feed. But yeah, it's really unique for him.

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Speaker 3: You know, people are not.

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Speaker 2: The tourists, not feeding, not feeding soft cron the tourists.

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Speaker 3: Though, no, no, not yet, no, yeah, but he's been

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Speaker 3: popet so just such a drill card. Yeah, no, we're

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Speaker 3: we're very proud of it's a great part of this

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Speaker 3: great business. And we got we're lucky to great stuff.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, all good and berry springs.

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Speaker 1: All good stuff. Well, slowly always good to catch up

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Speaker 1: with you. I am really pleased to hear, and I

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Speaker 1: really pleased to hear that. You know, this tax on

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Speaker 1: our alcoholic beverages is not going to have as big

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Speaker 1: four hours or so.

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Speaker 2: So good to catch up with you.

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Speaker 3: No worries, ken, you've had a big day. How there

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Speaker 3: is the day off? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Thanks mate? On you no

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Speaker 1: Jud and knock off shortly anyway, good on you, slowly,

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Speaker 1: thank you,