Tag: tobacco

The Australian Tax Office and Qld Police this week detected and destroyed 25 tonnes of illicit tobacco valued at around $40-million.

Targeting of illicit tobacco rings continues, with taskforce hitting two organised crime syndicates operating in WA and Victoria.

Taskforce disrupts illicit tobacco-growing and destroys crops with a potential excise value of more than $84-million.

Prime minister calls the Western Australian ban of the 140-year-old opera depicting smoking “political correctness gone crazy.”

Former prime minister John Howard has savaged Ed Miliband after the British Labour leader suggested Lynton Crosby was employing dog-whistle politics.

A new federal tobacco excise is set to hit Australian smokers’ hip-pockets to the tune of $1 per cigarette by 2016.

Australian election strategist Lynton Crosby has faced renewed calls to prove there is no conflict of interest between his role as advisor to the Conservative Party, and the lobbying role of his company CTF Partners for Philip Morris International.

David Cameron’s chief election strategist, Australian Lynton Crosby, has denied he spoke to the British Prime Minister about plain packaging on cigarettes.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has been urged to sack his Australian election strategist Lynton Crosby.