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Speaker 1: We know that Deloyd has crunched the numbers on the

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Speaker 1: it's contributed four hundred and twenty seven million dollars in

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Speaker 2: In taxes to the government.

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Speaker 1: Now, the industry snapshot also found that visitors spend one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty one million dollars helping employ more than

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Speaker 1: seventeen thousand workers in tourism and hospitality. Now joining us

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Speaker 2: Alex Bruska boarding Alex.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Katie, Alex.

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Speaker 1: How come this well, how come I suppose this report

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Speaker 3: I look just a bit timely for us to get

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Speaker 3: an updated snapshot of who we are and our position

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Speaker 3: in the territory. You know, we are a large provider

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Speaker 3: of jobs and twelve point one percent of the economy.

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Speaker 3: We are one of them, the bringer in the Interstates

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Speaker 3: We're often your first job or your job while you're studying,

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Speaker 3: So you know, we really do play a key role

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Speaker 3: more workforce participation, I.

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Speaker 1: Reckon, most people start their careers, don't they in hospitality.

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Speaker 1: I worked at Malanka's in Alice Springs many many, many

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Speaker 3: Alex I came up with a broken out camper trailer,

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Speaker 2: I am caden.

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Speaker 1: That didn't take you long to get to move that

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Speaker 3: Chain must be good on the other side of the bar.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, and I reckon most people would have a

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Speaker 1: Like you're so spot on with saying that a lot

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Speaker 3: Look pleasingly, we have seen a lot of the workforce

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Speaker 3: we've just got back to those traditional skills shortages there,

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Speaker 3: Oh, look, there are there are stories right across the

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Speaker 1: You know. Well, and this is the thing we all

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Speaker 3: But yeah, crime, seventy five percent of them think crimes

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's spot like you're spot on what you're saying,

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Speaker 3: We do catch up regularly with the ministry. He has

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Speaker 3: bottom of the well. We're tapped out. We've got to

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Speaker 3: start putting the lens over all the money, the millions

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Speaker 3: to actually get behind and try and address the real problems.

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Speaker 3: But again, not my baliwick. I'm in my lane.

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Speaker 1: I do want to ask though, in terms of the

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Speaker 1: you know, like in terms of the palis coming off

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Speaker 1: the bottle shops, what have you been told, will there

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Speaker 1: be liquor inspectors or are some of those businesses going

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Speaker 1: to sort of have to hire additional security.

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Speaker 2: What's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a bit blended and it's a bit

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Speaker 3: mixed in the response in those three different towns, police

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Speaker 3: have been indicating some of that to the affected venues

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Speaker 3: and businesses. The accords did write in saying, look, we

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Speaker 3: don't feel like we're giving enough information to make planning

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Speaker 3: decisions like putting on more security and everything else, and

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Speaker 3: we did discuss that in our recent meeting with Minister

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Speaker 3: Potter and he got to that a little bit. So

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Speaker 3: we are just trying to what's the government's position, what

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Speaker 3: are they doing, and we'll try and leverage off that

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Speaker 3: to make sure that we're protecting our staff, our customers

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Speaker 3: and our assets as best we can.

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Speaker 1: Well Hospitality in t CEO, Alex Bruce, it's always good

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Speaker 1: to catch up with you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Tfktie all the best, thank you,