Catherine King

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CATHERINE KING MP
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Minister Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development & Local Government

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Friday, 15 April 2016 / Published in MEDIA

MORE LIBERAL AGILITY ON TOBACCO TAX

p>Labor welcomes today’s reports the Liberal Party is set to back Labor’s world leading tobacco policy after yet another backflip.
 

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Labor welcomes today’s reports the Liberal Party is set to back Labor’s world leading tobacco policy after yet another backflip.
 
When Labor unveiled our policy in November to continue the existing annual increases in tobacco excise for four more years, Assistant Treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer dismissed the idea as “another tax-take”.

Health Minister Sussan Ley was even more scathing, dismissing it as:

"a grab for money, it’s a political statement and I don’t like it.”
ABC INSIDERS, 29TH NOVEMBER 2015

This was despite the fact the minister strongly endorsed raising tobacco tax, when Malcolm Turnbull proposed this in his 2009 Budget reply speech.

“There is no doubt that one of the single biggest disincentives to smoking is the price of cigarettes ….  so it is a measure that I believe all sides of politics must support.”
Sussan Ley, Hansard, 1st June 2009

Each year in Australia, tobacco kills more than 15,000 people and has more than $31.5 billion in health and economic costs.
 
Labor would warmly welcome the Turnbull Government adopting our approach to tackling tobacco consumption which is both evidence-based and in line with international best practice. 

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