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Health Minister Natasha Fyles and Hospitality NT CEO Alex Bruce on whether alcohol should be re-introduced into "dry" communities · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Barunga community have recently been given a liquor license to
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  Speaker 1: a club in their community, and so I think that
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  Speaker 1: there is different solutions across the territory. Of course, women
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  Speaker 1: and children in their space we have to come first.
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  Speaker 1: But you need to look at people. They go to work,
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  Speaker 1: they want to be able to have a dreams and
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  Speaker 1: if they can't do that in their community, it forces
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  Speaker 1: them into urban areas, which brings other social issues. So
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  Speaker 1: how can we across the board have measures to keep
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  Speaker 1: the community safe and allow territorians to access our clod
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  Speaker 1: So just very quickly, is that something that you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at in other communities? Yeah, Katie, So we've spoken about
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  Speaker 1: this many times where the liquor licenses need to be
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  Speaker 1: signed off by the Commonwealth and the former Senator Nigel
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  Speaker 1: Scully and the GOP just refused to engage the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm really pleased that a mature conversation with women
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  Speaker 1: and children's safety coming first is happening in a number
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  Speaker 1: of communities.
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  Speaker 2: They really need to get a move on with some
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  Speaker 2: of those community clubs out in remote areas and involve
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  Speaker 2: importantly the urban community. We shouldn't be selected about who
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  Speaker 2: gets to say about where alcohol should or shouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: too much. I don't think to learn to live with it.
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  Speaker 2: That stronger Futures legislation is expiring first of July. So
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  Speaker 2: how come we don't have more than just barunga. Why
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  Speaker 2: don't we have six or seven ready to go