When selling grog 'at the lowest price' comes at too great a cost

"We did not do enough in this community to live up to the best practice stakeholder engagement to which we hold ourselves accountable," Mr Cairns said.

But the failure to secure the liquor outlet, and the jobs that would have come with it, has prompted the CLP opposition to lay the blame squarely with the government. "The Gunner government's reaction and continual shifting of the goalposts made it very clear, even to the most casual observer, that the Northern Territory is not a good place to do business," Opposition Leader Lia Finocchiaro said.Despite the government's previous resistance to large-scale bottle shops, the Chief Minister later lamented an adverse court decision against Dan Murphy's as "a massive kick in the guts to Territorians".

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

All they needed to do was buy a few of the small liquor licenses and burn them, showing how they were moving grog sales from the suburbs to the airport. Darwin does not benefit from not having a Dan Murphy’s. It could’ve benefitted from having one with L.License consolidation.

The Board must have been in tears.

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