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Photo credit: Australian Taxation Office

Tax man deals a blow to crime syndicates with big illicit tobacco seizure

2021-05-16 07:05

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

Illicit Tobacco Taskforce targets overseas and local smuggling rings

by Mike Simpson

2021-03-14 05:03

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

One of the illicit crops in NSW. Photo credit: Australian Taxation Office

Massive seizures of illegal tobacco along NSW-Victoria border

by Mike Simpson

2021-03-08 07:03

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

Western Australia bans Carmen opera over smoking scenes

by Australian Times

2014-10-13 07:10

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

Miliband ‘pathetic and insecure’: Howard

by Australian Times

2013-11-06 08:11

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

Government plans new tobacco tax to return budget to surplus

by Marian Borges

2013-08-01 16:08

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

Ex-watchdog calls for Crosby to come clean on other clients

by Michaela Gray

2013-07-29 11:07

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.

UK PM election strategist Lynton Crosby denies lobbying on cigarettes

by Alex Ivett

2013-07-23 18:07

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