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But one advantage of having no fireworks, he said, is that customers will not abruptly disappear at 11pm to watch them.
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Mr James said he had not received much information from the council about how the New Year's Eve event, for which council was setting up barriers and lighting on Wednesday, would work. "It should be good," he said.
However, lately his venue and others had been in "uncharted territory", with fewer people working in the city, no tourism and staff hard to find. "The reopening process has been very hard work," Mr James said.
The council and the state government have stressed that COVID safety means people should not go to the CBD on New Year's Eve unless they have a restaurant reservation.