Description: Victoria's liquor licensing threatens our music culture
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Here's most of what he said (he was in the window, but had to stand back to avoid feedback from the speaker): “While Bruce is getting ready, I'll just run over some of the technicalities for you about what the problem is. The real issue that we've got is that on the liquor licences it has this clause that says that if live music and amplified music is played, you need to do a whole stack of things. Which is basically have a whole stack of security guards at a particular ratio, CCTV, etc etc. Now, no-one's a