Coverage of CIS paper on tobacco excise, and more

Prohibitive Puffing: How Australia’s Tobacco Excise Produced Crime – Scoop NZ

A paper by the conservative Centre for Independent Studies published in November last year argues that a misalignment of priorities has emerged in the policy of taxing tobacco consumption. The Commonwealth, in the main, had been “rewarded for over-taxing while states and local communities bear the health, policing, and insurance costs of the disorder that results.”

How Australia’s Tobacco Excise Produced Crime – Dissident Voice

Prohibitive Puffing: How Australia’s Tobacco Excise Produced Crime – Modern Ghana

Liberal senator misses Taylor’s memo – Crikey

New Liberal kingpin Angus Taylor is pretty hardcore on government spending: cutting it back is a central priority of his leadership. He mentioned it more than a dozen times in his recent address to the right-wing Centre for Independent Studies, asserting, “Labor has a dangerous addiction to spending other people’s money.”

“We need to get more gas out of the ground” – EnergyNewsBulletin

Just days after taking the reins from Sussan Ley, Angus Taylor spoke earlier this week to a notably receptive audience at the Centre for Independent Studies and zeroed in on the cost-of-living crisis and energy bills.