David Pocock, Sophie Scamps and Lidia Thorpe, have come together to support 'red line' legislation which aims to push the government to strengthen international law, with Chris Sidoti, Gillian Triggs ...

Right now, based on market share, organised crime effectively is Big Tobacco in Australia.

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I released a book today called The National Labor Relations Book , which you can buy over at NLRBResearch.com for $10 ( click here ). The book provides an introduction to the NLRA and NLRB by providin...

Criminologist Dr James Martin thinks the federal budget announcement to tackle black market tobacco will backfire.

The experimental estimates are based on "nicotine metabolite concentrations" detected in wastewater samples, combined with data showing a collapse in spending on legal cigarettes and vapes.

Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households

Would cutting tobacco tax weaken a dangerous black market - or reverse decades of progress in reducing smoking deaths?

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Risk factorisation and the silo problem A book of palindromes was recently given to me by my wife, on behalf of my kids (for I am a massive word-nerd). Browsing through it, I came across this one: …

Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only all...

Where there’s demand, there will be supply, legal or not. From the ‘sly grog’ of the 1920s to the illicit vapes of today, getting regulation right is difficult.

The theory goes that if you have just the right amount of workers on the unemployment scrap heap, you can keep inflation in check. The problem is that no-one knows exactly what the magic unemployment ...

Researchers propose revolutionary “HOME” program In a startling departure from conventional approaches to heat vulnerability, a team of researchers has proposed what they’re calling the Housing-Ori…

The problem with having pattern recognition is that you can always see the fires before they start. Governments are a bit like that, too.  It’s not that they don’t see the fire before the smoke, it’s...

At least 15 welfare and human rights organisations have renewed calls for the government to end its Targeted Compliance Framework.

Australian state governments are calling for tobacco tax cuts to address the growing illicit market. The Commonwealth has ruled it out. This isn’t a policy debate – it’s a standoff betw…