✅ Implemented fit-for-purpose Noise Standards in the City Centre Entertainment Precinct

✅ Introduced next-day outdoor dining permits

✅ Enacted laws to support businesses to extend their trading hours and contribute to a vibrant nightlife with more live music and entertainment

✅ Reduced annual liquor fees for small businesses and allowed more business categories to supply liquor without a licence

✅ Supported smaller venues to start up and stay open longer, and encouraged new business models at night

✅ Introduced free loading zone permits for musicians

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✅ Examining our town centres and other areas that are suitable to be defined as entertainment precincts 

✅ Investigating reforms to manage 'vexatious' noise complaints against venues and considering the order of occupancy

✅ Undertaking a significant review of the Public Unleased Land Act to ensure it is fit for purpose and reflects contemporary use and value ascribed to places

✅ Encouraging more events by making additional public areas available to organisers and developing a comprehensive guide to help organisers

✅ Extending liquor fee reductions to more venues

✅ Building an artist registry to assist owners and managers to book local artists and musicians for their venue

✅ Bringing back the Birdman Rally