Australia's illicit tobacco trade has become one of the nation's fastest-growing criminal markets, totalling $4 billion in the 2023-24 financial year. This fuels violence, as organised crime ...

Illegal tobacco is burning a $4 billion hole in Australia's hip pocket but policy boffins are sceptical lowering the tax on legal cigarettes will stop the rot. The economic cost of organised crime to ...

This week, it was revealed that organised crime syndicates now control almost 50 per cent of Australia’s tobacco market. Figures show the illicit trade is on track to dominate four out of five ...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has revealed its ­estimates on the size of the black market are “unreliable” – conceding the problem is far larger than thought. Premier Chris Minns seized on the ...

SYDNEY: Australia's AUKUS submarine fleet base and its vicinity are being quietly connected to three powerful new undersea internet cables planned by Alphabet's Google and SUBCO, documents viewed by ...

The tobacco tax excise increased by a whopping 25 per cent in 2010 following recommendations from the National Preventive Health Strategy Report and to generate additional funding for the Health and ...

FILE PHOTO: An external view of HMAS Stirling navy base, as it is set to host a rotational force of up to four United States Virginia class attack submarines, and one British nuclear powered submarine ...