Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Tobacco excise collections have collapsed to their lowest level in 14 years as smokers turn to the black market for cheaper ...

Locked in a showdown with big tobacco, then-prime minister Julia Gillard took to the airwaves one early morning in 2011 and threw down the gauntlet. "We're not going to be intimidated by big ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. The Albanese government has failed to plug a potential $11.5 billion hole in the budget, putting almost no money aside to fund ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from SA News. Followed categories will be added to My News. The state has been allocated a paltry $125m in the national infrastructure budget to remove the Curtis ...

The state has been allocated a paltry $125m in the national infrastructure budget to remove the Curtis Road level road crossing while eastern states are delivered billions of dollars in road and ...

The Illawarra, on the NSW south coast, can be hostile territory for Australian politicians. In 1939, Robert Menzies was booed by thousands of placard-waving locals as police escorted him down the ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Police & Courts. Followed categories will be added to My News. Law enforcement agencies joined forces under the codename Operation Morpheus. In a herculean ...

Law enforcement agencies joined forces under the codename Operation Morpheus. In a herculean effort, all Australian state and territory police and New Zealand Police teamed up, along with ...

When BreAntra Jackson started working at the Internal Revenue Service last October, she was excited to have secured a coveted position in the federal government. "Working at the IRS was one of the ...

Faced with a pack of 25 cigarettes costing up to Aus$50 (US$32) or more -- including Aus$1.40 in tax on each stick -- many smokers have instead turned to readily available illicit tobacco.