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One Nation Moves to Cut Tobacco Excise by 75 Percent
One Nation has escalated its tobacco tax position, proposing a 75 percent cut to the excise and a pause on indexation. Pauline Hanson told news.com.au the policy would take a pack of cigarettes from around $46.50 to about $22, a price last seen in Australia around 2015. It is a significant move from the position the party put forward in June, when it proposed halving the excise. The doubling of the ask reflects how far the numbers underneath the debate have shifted in two months. The revenue argument Hanson's case rests on collapsing collections rather than health policy. Excise on ...
Fuel by Ship, Food by Legend: How Lisa Roach Runs One of Australia’s Most Remote Servos with Beacon
Nhulunbuy sits on the Gove Peninsula in East Arnhem Land, about as remote as fuel retailing gets in Australia. Petrol arrives by ship from Darwin on a rotating schedule. Shop stock ordered on a Monday lands the following Monday. And every August, the Garma Festival multiplies the town's population overnight. Lisa Roach has run BP Nhulunbuy for 14 years, in a family business that has held the site since December 2000. The site started out on OnQ, the point of sale system the Beacon team acquired and supported, and later upgraded to Beacon. We caught up with Lisa the week ...
One Nation Moves to Cut Tobacco Excise by 75 Percent
One Nation has escalated its tobacco tax position, proposing a 75 percent cut to the excise and a pause on indexation. Pauline Hanson told news.com.au the policy would take a pack of cigarettes from around $46.50 to about $22, a price last seen in Australia around 2015. It is a ...
Fuel by Ship, Food by Legend: How Lisa Roach Runs One of Australia’s Most Remote Servos with Beacon
Nhulunbuy sits on the Gove Peninsula in East Arnhem Land, about as remote as fuel retailing gets in Australia. Petrol arrives by ship from Darwin on a rotating schedule. Shop stock ordered on a Monday lands the following Monday. And every August, the Garma Festival multiplies the town's population overnight ...
One Servo, One ACCC Review: The New Merger Rules Reach the Forecourt
The ACCC is formally reviewing BP Australia's purchase of a single service station, the bp Gateway site at Port Macquarie, in one of the first tests of how Australia's new merger regime treats forecourt-level deals. The Notification BP notified the acquisition on 4 August under the mandatory merger regime that ...
Sacked Over a Roller Door: Fair Work Orders Reinstatement
The Fair Work Commission has ordered Endeavour Group to reinstate a 67-year-old Tasmanian retail worker dismissed over her response to a store theft, in a decision with direct lessons for any fuel and convenience operator whose staff face the same split-second situations. The Prospect Vale Incident Wendy Blair had worked ...
Full Excise Returns With the ACCC Watching
Fuel excise is back at full strength. The 16 cents a litre of remaining relief expired at midnight on 2 August, and with indexation added the rate now stands at 53.7 cents a litre, up from the discounted settings that had been in place since 1 April. The ACCC's own ...
Record $1.1m Fine Caps a Week of Tobacco Enforcement
Illicit tobacco enforcement escalated on three fronts inside a week: a record fine of more than $1.1 million against a Sydney tobacconist, new Tasmanian laws in force, and a national ban on nicotine pouch access routes that took effect today. The Hornsby Precedent A tobacconist in Hornsby has received the ...
