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Kieran McAnulty: Labour MP on his member's bill designed to loosen liquor regulations on public holidays · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon. So there is a chance that one
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  Speaker 2: of the dumber Easter rules may change in time for
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  Speaker 2: this Easter. Currently, you're not allowed to buy a drink
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  Speaker 2: on Good Friday unless you are staying at the establishment
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  Speaker 2: or order yourself a substantial meal. But Karen McNaughty of
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  Speaker 2: Labor has promoted an amendment to the Sale and Supply
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  Speaker 2: of Alcohol Act in order to change that. It's being
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  Speaker 2: debated today in Parliament and he's with us.
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  Speaker 3: Karen, Hello, Gay, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: And well, thank you. Chances it's done by this Easter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well the debate is happening right now. I've literally
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  Speaker 3: stepped out of the house to have a yarn with you,
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  Speaker 3: so we will know the result and probably about an
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  Speaker 3: hour's time.
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  Speaker 2: Chances it passes.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's pretty good. The numbers of support has
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  Speaker 3: stayed steady throughout the stages, and this is the furthest
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  Speaker 3: that any attempt to amend Easter rules has got. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: no previous attempt had even got to Select. So the
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  Speaker 3: fact we've got through Select Committee second Reading committee the
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  Speaker 3: whole where now we're on third reading with the same
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  Speaker 3: level of support. I'm pretty confident if it.
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  Speaker 2: Passes, it means that you can go into a pub
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  Speaker 2: on Good Friday, you can order yourself a beer without
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  Speaker 2: ordering a meal. Does it also mean that that pub
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  Speaker 2: owners can keep their pubs open on Good Friday morning
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  Speaker 2: rather than shutting them at midnight like they do on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it will, and I'm look. The thing is that
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  Speaker 3: on these three and a half days, that the half
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  Speaker 3: day is the morning of Anzac Day, these on licensed
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  Speaker 3: premises have to operate under different rules and they do
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  Speaker 3: any other time of the year. And all I'm proposing
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  Speaker 3: is that on these days the businesses that are already
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  Speaker 3: operating and the workers that are already working anyway, can
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  Speaker 3: just do so under normal conditions. It'll clear up so
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  Speaker 3: much confusion for tourists that just want to have a
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  Speaker 3: pint and have to be told they have to order
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  Speaker 3: a race meal. And I want a race meal where
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  Speaker 3: you have to if you want to have a drink,
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  Speaker 3: it's just nonsense. If they're open anyway, just let them
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  Speaker 3: operate under normal conditions.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm getting a lot of texts from people like
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  Speaker 2: Nick who says, hey, we've already done rosters for the
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  Speaker 2: next few weeks, and someone else says it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be bad for your voting base because you normally look
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  Speaker 2: after the workers who want to have a break. What
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  Speaker 2: do you say to that.
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  Speaker 3: If this bill was proposing what those that have failed
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  Speaker 3: before me was is that we're changing the trading laws,
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  Speaker 3: then yeah, sure they might have a point, but the
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  Speaker 3: only businesses that are affected by my bill are those
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  Speaker 3: that are open and operating anyway, so the workers are
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  Speaker 3: already working. In fact, if anything, the feedback I've had
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  Speaker 3: from workers is that instead of monitoring what food people
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  Speaker 3: have ordered, they can just operate under normal conditions and
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  Speaker 3: it's better for them. But it's a face of a rule,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the fact that you're required to order a
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  Speaker 3: substantial meal when a substantial meal isn't actually defined. You
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  Speaker 3: have to order it, but you're not actually required to
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  Speaker 3: eat it. You just have to order it in order
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  Speaker 3: to get a drink. It's nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: It's such nonsense. What pub are you hitting on Good Friday?
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  Speaker 3: Then there's a beer guard and small walk from my
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  Speaker 3: house and Maston in which I'll be popping down to
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  Speaker 3: on good Friday, and I might even go out with
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  Speaker 3: the family after Mass on Lisa Sunday Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Wild weekend for you, Kieren, Thanks very much, Kieran Mconaughty
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  Speaker 2: Labor MP.
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