1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: As I mentioned a little earlier this morning, we do 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: know that there has been a bit of a shake 3 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: up when it comes to commercial builder registrations aiming to 4 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: build confidence the government say in the local construction industry. 5 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: The government said earlier in the week that twenty eight 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: submissions were made on a consultation paper which they have 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: then which have contributed to the development of a registration 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: model when it comes to commercial builders. So under this model, 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: builders wanting to construct commercial buildings such as a warehouse 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: and offices are now going to be required to be 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 1: registered as commercial builders, but jobs including renovations and alterations 12 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: on existing buildings won't require commercial builder status apparently. But 13 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 1: joining me in the studio to tell us a little 14 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: bit more about the changes and what it is going 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: to mean for the local construction industry is Ben Carter, 16 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: who is indeed the CEO of Master Builders here in 17 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: the territory. Good morning, Ben, how are you going? Not 18 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: too bad? Now? Ben? Firstly talk through exactly what these 19 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: changes are going to mean. 20 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 2: Well, Katie, So the government is correct when it says 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 2: that it's got a series of reforms that are targeted 22 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 2: to what it says is inspiring confidence in the industry. 23 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 2: What we would say is that it's about continuing confidence 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 2: in the industry and the building environment because our members 25 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: have been building the territory for decades successfully with no dramas, 26 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 2: and the public we know has a great deal of 27 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 2: confidence in us. The government's reforms are in line with 28 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 2: other governments around Australia and so we don't oppose those 29 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 2: reforms in principle. What we oppose is the way they've 30 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: been implemented. The Government has proposed earlier this year licensing 31 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: model which would force many many builders with decades of 32 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 2: experience and improven track record of delivering trustworthy buildings to 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: basically stop their business, stop running their businesses and go 34 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 2: and get a Uni degree or a university diploma, which 35 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: would take two years for a full time student. Part 36 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: time would take four years at least. So we've been 37 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 2: pleading with the government for months and months and months 38 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 2: to have a parallel pathway so that so there can 39 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 2: be an adpigheming pathway to a license to a commercial 40 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,679 Speaker 2: builder's license, but there also can be a system which 41 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: recognizes the fact that many builders running commercial building businesses 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 2: for decades with a proven track record of delivering safe 43 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: and quality buildings would have to go back to UNI, 44 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 2: which is not going to be. 45 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: A good So then let me just get this straight. 46 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: So what these changes are going to mean is say 47 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: you've got a builder that's been operating here in the 48 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: territory for thirty years that they're going to have to 49 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: go back to university and those qualifications and that work 50 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: experience that they've had for the last thirty years means 51 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: diadley squat. 52 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 2: So the government says there will be gone grandfather and 53 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 2: provisions which only under their proposal go for a year, 54 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: which will be inadequate. What they've also done, and what 55 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 2: we've said is that their detail and their proposed method 56 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 2: of grandfathering, which basically means that they'll give people some 57 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 2: they'll try and take into account some of that experience, 58 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: is in adequate and vague, and there will be many 59 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: builders who will fail at who won't be able to 60 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: demonstrate or comply with what that system is once it 61 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 2: is actually announced, and they'll have to go back to union. Well, 62 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 2: if they went to union in the first place, which 63 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 2: many wouldn't have meeting, would have come through a vocational pathway. 64 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: They would have done an apprenticeship they would have done 65 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 2: and had a lot. They've had on the job experience 66 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 2: on construction sites, day in and day out for thirty years, 67 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,559 Speaker 2: as you say, or forty or twenty or a decade, 68 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 2: and they've had it. They've got a trusted track record 69 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: of building trustworthy buildings and they're going to be forced 70 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 2: to go that academic pathway. 71 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: But the other thing, and I mean this in the 72 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: most positive way, but within our construction sector, we've also 73 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: got a lot of Italians and Greeks that have migrated 74 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: to Australia and have been here for forty fifty years 75 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: working in the construction industry, building buildings right around the 76 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: Northern Territory. They built the Northern Territory with the local 77 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: lauses after Cyclone Tracy. What's going to happen with those people? 78 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: Do they need to go back to university? 79 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 2: There are people in the industry who there are people 80 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 2: now who are engaged by government to do major reports 81 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: on our industry, who who are on committees, who are 82 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 2: giants of industry and eminent territorians who could not qualify 83 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 2: today or under these provisions for a builder's license, even 84 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 2: though they have run, you know, major construction businesses and 85 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: continue to do so many cases, so it will cause 86 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 2: a lot of hack. These are real people, Katie, real 87 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 2: people who are employing other real people. There's the v 88 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 2: of work done in the territory is of today in 89 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 2: construction for this year's three billion dollars, we are employing 90 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 2: upwards of two thousand Territorians, providing opportunities for hundreds of apprentices. 91 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,679 Speaker 2: And the interesting thing is is that the Attorney General 92 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 2: has previously said that that are vocational pathway is the 93 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: way and an experienced pathway is the way to advance 94 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: through the construction industry. But now they're endorsing this, well, 95 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 2: they're trying to force this pathway on us. 96 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: So, Ben, what are member saying to you right now 97 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: as a result of this announcement being made throughout the week? 98 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: What are they saying? 99 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 2: Well, Katie, they have categorically rejected this the industry and 100 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 2: Master Billi's members of categorically rejected this proposal when it 101 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: was first made in April this year, and Master Biller 102 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 2: has vigorously opposed it then since anna's been a radio 103 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 2: silence from the government. And now they've rushed this out, 104 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 2: well not rush, they've waited until one week before Christmas 105 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 2: to rush this out. And that's what governments do when 106 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 2: they know they're about to announce something that's deeply unpopular, 107 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: and they want to mute the opposition op vision voices 108 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 2: because they know people will be on holidays, they know 109 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 2: that our industry won't be around, and so that's why 110 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: they've done this. That's what governments do. So there's a 111 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 2: great deal of anger, a great deal of anger. 112 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: So do you reckon? They're trying to pull the wool 113 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: over the eyes of territory on this. 114 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 2: I'm not thinking that. I'm not sure they want to 115 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: deceive territorians. But what they certainly want to do is 116 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: they want to They know this will be unpopular. They understand, 117 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 2: if they've understood since April at least, how unpopulous it 118 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 2: is and how and how angry anger the industry is 119 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 2: about this, that people with a proven track record and 120 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 2: decades of experience will be forced to go through an 121 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: academic pathway to get a license to continue to operate. 122 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 2: They they they have they have a system where they 123 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: which which will be totally inadequate to assess that experience 124 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 2: and to grandfather it. There's lack of expertise, there that's 125 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 2: very that's very worrying, and so there's a great deal 126 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 2: of anger. And to do this, to do this the 127 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 2: week before Christmas, it's just sneaky and disingenuous and and 128 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 2: and angers the industry. 129 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: Ben I know that some people will be questioning, well, 130 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: isn't it fair enough for people to expect academic qualifications 131 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: as well as trade experience for commercial pride. 132 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: Well, it's not fair enough because historically there hasn't been 133 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 2: that requirement. So as I say, there are many many 134 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 2: builders in the territory and many people in management in 135 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 2: businesses who have had decades of experience, approven track records, 136 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 2: they have been working on and delivering trustworthy quality buildings 137 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 2: for decades, and there's never been a requirement before to 138 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 2: go through an academic pathway. Now it's fair enough to 139 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 2: say that people coming industry now should have a diploma. 140 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 2: We would say that actually three years of study is 141 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 2: probably in adequate any way to be trusted with building 142 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 2: a major project. And experience is always going to be 143 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 2: you know, adds to those is always going to be 144 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 2: the best thing you know on the spot on the job. 145 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 2: Experience is going to be just as valuable as the 146 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 2: plumber any day of the week. So, however, what we 147 00:07:58,320 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 2: are saying is is that if you are going to 148 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 2: have an academic pathway, you need to parallel one. In 149 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 2: other words, you need to have also a way that 150 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 2: that experience can be recognized and so that people won't 151 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 2: be forced to go. 152 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: Back ben What impact do you think that these reforms 153 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: are going to have on the industry. 154 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 2: Well, it can potentially force people out of the industry, 155 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: people who've been in the industry for decades, in giants, 156 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 2: as I say, in the territory, and in the industry. 157 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 2: It will cause it will cause a lot of shake 158 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 2: up in the industry. There's a lot and there's a 159 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: lot we don't know what will happen. We don't know 160 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,719 Speaker 2: some of the consequences. How will it play out if 161 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 2: people who are running businesses fail to get a license, 162 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 2: how will they continue to operate? How will I continue 163 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 2: to employ people and continue to work and driving economic 164 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 2: growth in jobs in the territory. They're going to have 165 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 2: to find solutions, and we don't know how it's going 166 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 2: to work out. That could have unintended consequences which we're 167 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 2: just not aware of. We have our plan, Master Builders 168 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 2: has produced a plan called Trustworthy nt Buildings, which is 169 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,719 Speaker 2: an ecosystem very much like the one you've introduced in 170 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 2: New South Wales, which we've put to the government, which 171 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 2: has a whole lot of protections for consumers and for 172 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 2: the territory. We want we want people to have confidence 173 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 2: in our built environment and have confidence our industry, which 174 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: they already do and we want to continue that. But 175 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 2: there has to be a practical way. That has to 176 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 2: be fair, it has to be true to real people 177 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 2: and the situation. These are real people that the government 178 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 2: is affecting, real businesses and they've run this out one 179 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 2: week before Christmas when they know that that's what they're 180 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 2: doing to try and avoid scrutiny and criticism. 181 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: How big of a blow is this after you know 182 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: what we've seen in recent years with COVID, with the 183 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: construction among the you know, like with the construction industry 184 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: and really you know, so much of what has happened 185 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: over recent years. You know, we need more people to 186 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: the workforce. How big a blow is this. 187 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 2: It will be a real blow to the industry, and 188 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 2: that's why the industry is so angry. We've come through COVID, 189 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 2: we had to deal with that, we're building back from 190 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 2: COVID and look, the territory government is doing some things 191 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 2: that are fantastic that we backed them one hundred percent 192 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 2: on and that we've asked for. Particularly, Minister Kirby has 193 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 2: been very supportive of the industry and has continued to 194 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 2: be so, and we are recruiting people overseas thanks to him, 195 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 2: and so some of the things that government is doing 196 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 2: is very strongly supported by US and very strongly supportive 197 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 2: of us. However, this policy is deeply FORWARED, totally rejected 198 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 2: and discredited and will be a blow to the industry. 199 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: I know that there had been some issues. I recall 200 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 1: interviewing Minister Laula about it in recent times. It could 201 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: have even been sort of towards the end of last 202 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: year where there had been some issues with the coding 203 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: of some of the buildings around the Northern Territory and 204 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: them not being to the specifications that were required. I mean, 205 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: is this part of it, is this part of sort 206 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: of making sure that everything that is built in the 207 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: Northern Territory is up to the standard that that we need. 208 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 2: Absolutely, and as I said at the start, we're not 209 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 2: opposed to that. We have our Trustworthy NT Buildings Plan, 210 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 2: which is about doing exactly that. What we're doing, what 211 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 2: we're proposing is measures that will as many are doing 212 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 2: in New South Wales are about are about inspiring more 213 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 2: confidence and ensuring that underpinning the continuing high quality of 214 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 2: buildings in the NT. There's not there's not some epidemic 215 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 2: of of of you know, flawed and unsafe and and 216 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 2: what's the word on poor quality buildings. There's not that 217 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 2: at all. In fact, we have we have a great 218 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 2: building environment up here. But nevertheless there isn't there is 219 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: a need, as with governments around Australia are doing, to 220 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: put in regulations that underpin that and we support them. 221 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 2: Our trust worth the NT Buildings has an ecosystem to 222 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 2: achieve that, which includes building a commercial builder licensing. However, however, 223 00:11:55,679 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: there must be a parallel pathway that recognizes the experience 224 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 2: so people with a preven track record and decades of 225 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 2: experience in delivering trustworthy buildings. 226 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: Well. Ben Carter, the CEO of Master Builders here in 227 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: the Northern Territory, really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks 228 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: so much for joining us, and Merry Christmas to you. 229 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: Please keep us up to date though with everything that goes. 230 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 2: Along with this, Yeah, definitely will Katie, It'll be happy 231 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 2: to do that. And Americ Christmas to all your listeners 232 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 2: and for all the commercial bills out there, stay tuned. 233 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks Ben,