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Speaker 1: There's a lot of excitement around the territory with Bonza

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Speaker 1: entering the airways and joining me on the line right

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Speaker 1: now from Hospitality int the CEO Alex Bruce, Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Alex, Good morning teddy mate. Firstly, Daniel Rochford

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Speaker 1: wants you to don the budgy smugglers and can't wheel

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Speaker 1: down the todd more with him. Are you up for it?

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Speaker 2: Some people look better with the lights off, Katers. That's

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Speaker 2: the reality of right some of us out there.

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Speaker 1: So's to know I'm kissing.

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Speaker 2: I'm about promoting reasons on the territory of attractive place

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Speaker 2: to live with it.

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Speaker 1: Oh too funny. The excitement from Daniel is palpable, like

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Speaker 1: he's so pumped about Bonza entering the territory. How are

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Speaker 1: you feeling about it? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Really positive because we've had a bit of a patchy

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Speaker 2: season for some of our operators out there, and you

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Speaker 2: know your listeners all know this. That the cost of

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Speaker 2: the flights in and out of the territory. It's been

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Speaker 2: raised by all of our family and friends as why

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Speaker 2: they're not coming up or coming up less. We've heard

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Speaker 2: it from our accommodation properties. It really has been on

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Speaker 2: Dampner on what otherwise could have been a better season

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Speaker 2: for all of us, and with the seasonality that's come

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Speaker 2: back in, we know it's going to be very quiet

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Speaker 2: over this wet season, so you know, opportunity lost a

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Speaker 2: little bit to get the competition in earlier. We do

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Speaker 2: support the competition, we don't. We echo the sentiments, if

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Speaker 2: not the antics of Daniel and Cca in terms of

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Speaker 2: you know, we don't think the territory has been getting

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Speaker 2: a fit rubber the green from the existing operators.

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Speaker 1: Now, Like I think that we've spoken about this a

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Speaker 1: bit earlier in the week in fact with Bruce Dale

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Speaker 1: and aviation expert, he said that seasonality is like it

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Speaker 1: does have a huge part to play in terms of

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Speaker 1: the aviation sector. So I reckon, like it seems as

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Speaker 1: though you know the thing is here. All of us

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Speaker 1: probably need to get onto our families, our friends, go

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Speaker 1: come on on, come for a trip to the territory

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Speaker 1: and come here when it's harsh.

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Speaker 2: That kid and Truisa mentee does have a good summer

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Speaker 2: promotion running into state now and pleasingly what yesterday's announcement,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Gold Coast Airport down there at cold

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Speaker 2: and Gata. It is a gateway on it's got international flights,

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Speaker 2: it is a hub and spoke for all the other

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Speaker 2: ones as well. So it looks like there is now

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Speaker 2: an attractive path to come up north, you know, December

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Speaker 2: or in January and kick around and have some fun

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Speaker 2: up here and see see them hopefully and full forth.

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Speaker 1: Alex, what does it mean for hospitality in terms of

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Speaker 1: you know, keeping things going over that that wet season

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I think it's going to be the locals predominantly.

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Speaker 2: We're just seeing that trend. We're going to a bit

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Speaker 2: of kick over the next September school holidays, a kickoff

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Speaker 2: next next end of next week with territorial and getting

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Speaker 2: out and about a little bit more, and then our

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Speaker 2: forecasts are for that very traditional quiet accommodation season for you.

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Speaker 2: We really would encourage everyone, get their family and friends,

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Speaker 2: tell them to come up and poke around a bit

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Speaker 2: and have some fun. There's a lot of fantastic things

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Speaker 2: that are accessible year round. We know it. We just

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Speaker 2: need to get more Southerners up here as well to

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Speaker 2: experience it with us. But look, you know Daniel did

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Speaker 2: touch on it, and it's right. The attractiveness of this

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Speaker 2: place for all of those workers that we will want

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Speaker 2: to recruit into the lead up to next year. We

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Speaker 2: do compete for the same hospitality workers as places like

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Speaker 2: the Sunshine Coast the Gold Coast, so being able to

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Speaker 2: target those places to recruit from will be pleasing that

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Speaker 2: it's you know, the first thing they do is check

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Speaker 2: out the flight costs and say no, thank you. They

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Speaker 2: might check it out and go, yeah, all right, I'll

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Speaker 2: give it a go.

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Speaker 1: I just reckon, it's had such a huge impact in

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Speaker 1: so many ways the flight costs and you know, even

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Speaker 1: like just in terms of your connectivity to your family

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Speaker 1: as well if they live into state, it's got such

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Speaker 1: a big impact. But then, like you've just touched on,

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Speaker 1: when you're trying to recruit people here to work, it

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Speaker 2: Hindrance absolutely if they're not born and breders and they

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Speaker 2: want to give it a go, come join the territory.

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Speaker 2: We do have a great wife, so I know we've

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Speaker 2: got our challenges, but it's still a fantastic place up here.

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Speaker 2: But if they look at oh, well, you know what

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Speaker 2: if mum gets cruel, how much is it going to

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Speaker 2: cop a jump on a plane to head back down

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Speaker 2: and see her. Their eyes have been watering this year

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Speaker 2: and it has made that we know this from all

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Speaker 2: the workforce discussion wherein right across public and private sectors,

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Speaker 2: the connectivity and the cost of connectivity is a real

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Speaker 2: damp now for us recruiting.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Alex, I will ask you, and I put this

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Speaker 1: to Daniel as well. It's something that I think for

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Speaker 1: those of us that have all lived here for a while,

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Speaker 1: do worry about You know, we've seen airlines come and go.

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Speaker 1: Are you concerned about the longevity of Bonza?

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Speaker 2: Look, I listened to your interview. It's the Kim from Bonza.

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Speaker 2: I think they've gone as far as they can go.

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Speaker 2: I think they've they've reached their hand out to us.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it is on territoriums now. We need to

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Speaker 2: we need to stimulate competition. We need to help support competition,

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Speaker 2: otherwise we'll end up back with, you know, the idea

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Speaker 2: that we only have one of the two major carriers

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Speaker 2: that's flying direct flights to Sydney right now, how do

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Speaker 2: we get to this situation? So if sadly bonds ages

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Speaker 2: through lack of support from US and Southerners and other

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Speaker 2: customers of theirs, you know, well, we know what we're

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Speaker 2: in for if it's a monopoly or duopoly again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, this is the thing. And you know, as

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Speaker 1: you've touched on and look I talk about it so

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Speaker 1: often on the show. We know we've got our issues,

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Speaker 1: there is no doubt about that. We all hope that

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Speaker 1: those issues do get better, particularly things like crime and

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Speaker 1: the anti social behavior. But we really do want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that this place is thriving. We want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that we have more opportunities to travel into

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Speaker 1: state and for people to come and see us at

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Speaker 1: a cheaper and more reasonable price. So yeah, let's hope

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Speaker 1: that this is a step in the right direction and

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Speaker 1: things do start to move forward a bit.

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Speaker 2: That's it. And you know this has come in a

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Speaker 2: good time for us, whilst our workforce locally are thinking

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Speaker 2: about what they're going to do over Christmas, but also

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Speaker 2: you know, perfectly time for us to gear up for

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Speaker 2: hopefully another good dry season next year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Alex Bruce, the CEO of hospitality here in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory. Always good to catch up with you. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you again soon, k Katie.

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Speaker 2: I'll keep my pants on for now.

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Speaker 1: Good goal. Thanks Mace,