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Katie Woolf spoke with Fusion Fireworks owner Luke Caridi · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now let's head across and catch up right now with
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  Speaker 1: Luke from Fusion Fireworks. Good morning to you, Luke.
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  Speaker 2: Morning Katie. How are you not too bad?
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  Speaker 1: Luke? Look, I know that at the moment there must
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  Speaker 1: be quite a bit of uncertainty for you guys when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the sale of fireworks, given the facts
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  Speaker 1: that you know that we still don't know at this
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  Speaker 1: point in time how those fire conditions are going to
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  Speaker 1: be looking on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I'm pretty optimistic and positive that with the weather
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  Speaker 2: they would have done like a four day forecast. But
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  Speaker 2: with the record rain last night, the thirty mils, I
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  Speaker 2: think that God's have answered the preer of every territory,
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  Speaker 2: and I think if we look into it a little
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  Speaker 2: bit further, it's probably going to give the government and
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  Speaker 2: the fieries probably make their decision a lot easier now
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  Speaker 2: with all that rain, because as you can understand, I
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  Speaker 2: was spoken to a lot of locals out there that
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  Speaker 2: have lived there for a long time. They said, the
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  Speaker 2: humidity is looking to be very high towards the end
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  Speaker 2: of the week, so that glass should green up in
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  Speaker 2: the next day. And with the high humidity, they think
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  Speaker 2: to think the conditions are probably better now than what
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  Speaker 2: they would have been back in July one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope. So mate, what's you know, when have
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  Speaker 1: you been told by the government that you'll sort of
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  Speaker 1: have a clear idea of how things are looking.
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  Speaker 2: We only found out yesterday from the other media outlet
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  Speaker 2: that the Chief Minister gave me an interview to spading.
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  Speaker 2: He'll make a decision Friday or Saturday. With respect to
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  Speaker 2: that decision, there's no uncertainty whether that was just remote
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  Speaker 2: or rural. We haven't had any feedback or any answers,
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  Speaker 2: so we assume, and one would presume that Alice Springs
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  Speaker 2: is fine, Catherine is fine, Tennant Creek is fine, but
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  Speaker 2: we've had no correspondence, so we must assume and be
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  Speaker 2: positive that this is only really just the Darwin and
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  Speaker 2: rural and regional. But you know, as I said, we'll
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  Speaker 2: bless with thirty mills of rain last night record greens.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and as we sort of know, and some of
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  Speaker 1: the background you know that we've been provided is that
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  Speaker 1: obviously those fire conditions can vary greatly across the territory.
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  Speaker 1: So for example, there were a total fireban for Darwin
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  Speaker 1: and Litchfield area, but no fire danger in Alice Springs.
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  Speaker 1: Then obviously personal fireworks will be permitted in Alice, but
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  Speaker 1: it may be a different situation where and if a
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  Speaker 1: big if, if there was a fireban in place. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so, I think that they will be hopefully
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  Speaker 1: looking at things very much from a localized perspective, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of what those conditions are on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well one would host so, and as discussed a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, we did put forward the green
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  Speaker 2: zones and red zones. We haven't had any feedback obviously
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  Speaker 2: with both suggests, and so we're we're just you know,
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  Speaker 2: everything's in the hands of the fires and the government,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, so we would like a bit of
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  Speaker 2: certainty because there's a lot of there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: products out there. We've got products that Greod Island, Seaweed
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  Speaker 2: Island goes Alco Catherine Tennant Creek or through the territory,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, transport's been paid for, it's ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: But we need to hope and pray and pay optimistic
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  Speaker 2: that that the rain has helped will help a positive decision.
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  Speaker 1: Look, have you had any you know, have you had
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  Speaker 1: any sort of information from the government aside from what
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  Speaker 1: you've heard in the media or you know, aside from
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  Speaker 1: from I guess sort of secondhand, or have you been
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  Speaker 1: talking with any of those government departments or work safety
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  Speaker 1: at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we're female government numerous times, but we haven't had
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  Speaker 2: any feedback. We did have a quick course from Workspace
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and they've been fantastic in dealing with this. They're
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  Speaker 2: sort of like a messenger and basically all they told
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  Speaker 2: us yesterday was what was said in the media that
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  Speaker 2: they will no more Friday once once they do the
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  Speaker 2: four day forecast with the bomb. So so that you know,
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  Speaker 2: there isn't really much fresh information or certainty from our behalf.
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  Speaker 1: How are you guys looking though in terms of have
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  Speaker 1: you had a lot of interest in your pre sale
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that?
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  Speaker 2: Look, yeah, I've spoken to I've spoken to other importers,
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  Speaker 2: I've spoken to our retailers. There's there's over six thousand
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  Speaker 2: pre orders between us and that that would be up
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  Speaker 2: more than ten times any other previous year. Wow. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So we know the Territorians want the fireus. We know
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  Speaker 2: they're looking forward to it because the statistics don't lie
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  Speaker 2: from our end, We've never seen pre orders this of
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  Speaker 2: this degree. Ever, the pre orders could the pre orders
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  Speaker 2: could also be maybe people are trying to get their
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  Speaker 2: product and get out quicker. They don't want to be lining. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to be congregating because obviously we've just
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  Speaker 2: come out of a snap lockdown, so people are still
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  Speaker 2: wary about you know, gathering. So maybe that is that
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  Speaker 2: is a reason for the exponential increasing pre orders. But
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  Speaker 2: I can just see also the pre order amounts are
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  Speaker 2: a lot higher as well, so there must be people
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  Speaker 2: bunching together to you know, order together. But I do know,
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  Speaker 2: I do know the Territorians are looking forward to this
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  Speaker 2: well because yeah, well.
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  Speaker 1: By those numbers, yeah, six thousand pre orders, ten times
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  Speaker 1: what it's been previous year, is they are some pretty
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  Speaker 1: big numbers there, Luke. Mate will hopefully, you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we'll have a really clear idea on Friday exactly what's
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  Speaker 1: going going on. But I reckon you're right, hopefully a
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  Speaker 1: bit of that rain has helped. I know that we
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  Speaker 1: are still or there was still a forecast of extreme
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  Speaker 1: fire conditions for later in the week, but we're hopefully
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  Speaker 1: going to be catching up with the Bureau of Meteorology.
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  Speaker 1: If not today tomorrow and we'll get a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a clearer idea.
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  Speaker 2: No worries, Katie, good on your Luke.
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  Speaker 1: Always good to catch up. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's Luke Kreedi there, who is obviously the owner of
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  Speaker 1: Fusion Fireworks.