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Nick Visser2 Sept 2026, 10:45 pmUpdated 9 min ago1 min readWorldWorld
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Shadow treasurer says tobacco plans would bring in extra billions and stop people buying from the ‘black market’
Tim Wilson, the shadow treasurer, said the tobacco proposal would bring in an extra $2bn a year as it would stop people “buying products from the black market”.
We’ve been looking at this policy for a long time , but what we’ve been looking at is how do you break it down for the different parts of the market so that we can actually break the illegal tobacco trade? …
We’ve got a government, we’ve got a One Nation position which is focused solely on tax cuts. What we’re looking at is how do we stop the black market, both with enforcement and with reduction in the excise, so that we actually get the outcome Australians want.
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Source: The Guardian · Nick Visser. Published 2 Sept 2026, 10:45 pm.