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Hospitality NT CEO Alex Bruce wants to see drinking in public to be re-criminalised in the NT · 360 with Katie Woolf

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Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen when they changed the Act, they removed
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Speaker 1: that it was a public offense, an offense to be
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Speaker 1: publicly drinking.
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Speaker 2: So you reckon, We're back there, you reckon.
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Speaker 1: We need to actually do that during correct and now
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Speaker 1: at the moment, because it's no longer an offense. Vulnerable
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Speaker 1: cohort aren't ankinging up in the watchhouses anymore. They're refusing
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Speaker 1: to take the return flights that Lariki are off of them.
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Speaker 3: That is a good point to make. I'll put it
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Speaker 3: to our listeners.
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Speaker 4: You know, does it need to be an offense again
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Speaker 4: to drink publicly?
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Speaker 3: Should it be something that we are re looking into.
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Speaker 1: We need to disincentivize the behavior that everyone is seeing
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Speaker 1: on the streets.