Australia news live: Australia to give another $95m in military aid to Ukraine; illegal cigarettes sales to be part of official GDP
Richard Marles and Penny Wong say sanctions against Russia will be ramped up. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Bureau of...
By Martin Farrer · The Guardian World
Richard Marles and Penny Wong say sanctions against Russia will be ramped up. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Australian Bureau of Statistics is planning to account for illegal cigarette sales as years of falling legal purchases start to weigh on economic growth. The ABS measures tobacco sales through supermarket chains’ scanner data but consumers are swapping away from legal sales toward black market tobacco and illegal vapes. How are you going to do this? Are you going to infiltrate the gangs yourself, Mr Goldsworthy, to try and estimate the true sales volumes? I think you could pull it off. Continue reading...