Tobacco tax: Medical bodies warn against cutting excise
Proposals to lower the tobacco tax risk allowing “organised crime and big tobacco” to “rewrite Australia’s health policy”,…
Legal cigarette sales jump 55 per cent in Queensland after black market crackdown
Legal cigarette sales rose sharply in Queensland after the state gained stronger powers to shut illegal shops, while…
Pauline Hanson vows to slash cigarette prices by nearly $30 a pack
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says her party wants to wipe out the booming tobacco black market by…
Queensland crackdown cuts illicit tobacco and vape shops, but black market adapts
Last year, you could walk into one of several tobacconists in a busy Gold Coast shopping precinct and…
Health minister concedes tobacco black market has ‘exploded’
Health Minister Mark Butler has conceded the tobacco black market has “exploded” into the biggest threat to public…