‘Millions’ of savings if we get a Dan Murphy’s
TOP End drinkers would save up to $4 million if a Dan Murphy’s in Darwin goes ahead, the Liquor Commission has heard
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TOP End drinkers would save up to $4 million if a Dan Murphy’s in Darwin goes ahead, the Liquor Commission has heard.
The booze barn’s parent body, Woolworths subsidiary Endeavour Drinks Group, is applying to transfer a licence from a defunct BWS in Stuart Park to the site for the proposed Dan Murphy’s near Darwin Airport.
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EDG business development manager James Scott-Mackenzie fronted the first day of hearings on the application at the Supreme Court yesterday.
Mr Scott-Mackenzie told commissioners a block of VB currently retailing in Darwin for $73 could go for as little as $54.60 while still complying with the Territory’s alcohol floor price legislation — just $4.60 more than the same product at Dan Murphy’s in Perth.
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Mr Scott-Mackenzie also acknowledged there was an issue with people sleeping rough near the proposed development site.
But he said “roaming patrols” of security would keep an eye on the area, making sure people weren’t drinking in the scrubland and reporting suspect groups to police or Larrakia Nation.
Town planner Jeffrey Malcolm also took the stand for the liquor superstore but under a grilling from commission chair Richard Coates, it emerged Mr Malcolm had incorrectly assumed Darwin’s population was growing rather than shrinking.
Mr Coates asked Mr Malcolm if he’d “taken into account the Inpex development”.
“Ten thousand people came to Darwin and then they went away,” he said.
“Did you think that might have been something that was worth looking at?”
Mr Malcolm replied: “I didn’t read about or hear about the Inpex development.”
The commission heard the BWS at Stuart Park had stopped selling cask wine out of concern for the welfare of some local indigenous people but Woolworths national responsible service manager Kay Attard confirmed Dan Murphy’s would be selling goon.
Mr Scott-Mackenzie and Ms Attard both said they regretted not speaking directly with nearby Bagot residents about the proposal.
The hearing is expected to run until early next week.
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