Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition has tabled an amendment to tighten up the policing of cigarettes, unsafe vapes and vaping products. One Nation is in support of tightening up the policing of vapes and cigarettes. In reading this bill, it seems that this Labor government was happy to profiteer off the tobacco excise and ban vaping to protect the tobacco excise, both of which make life harder for everyday Australians. The absence, though, of tangible provisions in the bill to fight imported tobacco says to me that this government does not want to upset your ethnic branches who import cigarettes from their homeland and don't pay excise on them. Minister, how many prosecutions were made in the last 12 months over the importation of illegal tobacco and which countries did that tobacco originate?