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Nicole McKee: Associate Justice Minister on the new alcohol regulation shake-up set to impact businesses · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: The government is loosening liquor licensing rules. Only locals will
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  Speaker 2: now be able to object, and ministers will be able
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  Speaker 2: to invene with intervene without legislation for major talivised events.
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  Speaker 2: Nicole McKee is the Associate Justice ministan with US Now.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Nicole, Good afternoon, Heather.
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  Speaker 2: Were you getting objections from outside the local area?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we were. In fact, I had one bar owner
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  Speaker 3: that told me he received an objection that came from
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  Speaker 3: the United Kingdom, so it was more than just being
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  Speaker 3: outside of their local territorial authority areas.
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  Speaker 2: Why is anyone in the UK interested?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good question, and I think that's
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  Speaker 3: why we need to look to limit who can object.
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  Speaker 3: We want to make sure that the serious concerns are
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  Speaker 3: able to be voiced by those within the community, but
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  Speaker 3: it should be those within the territorial authorities which make
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  Speaker 3: the decisions that should be able to make those object Is.
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  Speaker 2: It someone who is anti liquor? Is that kind of that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I never got down to who it was. I
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  Speaker 3: was more gobsmacked that it came from overseas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what about the police approach to it, because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the problems have been caused by the fact
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  Speaker 2: that the police are really keen to shut the stuff down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I can understand why they're really keen to
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  Speaker 3: shut some stuff down, but I've had to find a
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  Speaker 3: balance here and I thought it was really important to
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  Speaker 3: do so. The majority of New Zealanders that drink drink responsibly,
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  Speaker 3: and I want to make sure that they have the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to do that. We want to regrow our sector,
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  Speaker 3: so it means also having tourism, having people been able
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and enjoy a night out. And
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  Speaker 3: while we have some harm stop people from getting out
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  Speaker 3: there and socializing, we need some good stories in the news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. Well, why the ministerial intervention for major televised events.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this really is so that we can go out
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  Speaker 3: there and celebrate good things like Rugby World Cup without
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  Speaker 3: having to do a legislative change or ordering council ever
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  Speaker 3: single time. So we're basically saying, if there's a big
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  Speaker 3: event like the Rugby World karpa, something that's happening that's
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  Speaker 3: outside of our time zones the pubs can open. Have
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  Speaker 3: seen success with that in the past, and we're basically
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  Speaker 3: saying ministers can do that again in the future without
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  Speaker 3: having to go through the ordering council and cabinet process
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  Speaker 3: to make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the other things that you're doing is
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  Speaker 2: the online verification of age. What are you changing here?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we're making sure that the digital identity credentials can
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  Speaker 3: be used as evidence of age documents once we get
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  Speaker 3: that framework up and running. So we're future proofing the
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  Speaker 3: way that we can check ID into the future. And
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  Speaker 3: this means that deliveries of alcohol at home, those rapid deliveries,
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  Speaker 3: for example, can be easily verified and checked upon when
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  Speaker 3: somebody places an order.
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  Speaker 2: Is this the same kind of verification that you'd be
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  Speaker 2: able to use for social media?
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  Speaker 3: It maybe, But in saying that hither, I'm we know
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  Speaker 3: that party are not in agreement with the restrictions on
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  Speaker 3: social media, and I know you. Our concern is how
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  Speaker 3: do you enforce it? But let's not say no to everything.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what this framework can develop and whether or
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  Speaker 3: not it can be utilized internationally as well.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff, Hey, Nicole, Thanks so much. Nicole, McKee, Associate
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  Speaker 2: Justice Minister.
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