00:02A four week shutdown order. This convenience store on Rundle Street, one of hundreds, closed on suspicion of selling illegal
00:08cigarettes. Plenty have reopened straight away.
00:12The 28 day closure has really just been a holiday for some of these shopkeepers who return after 28 days
00:18and take up the trade again.
00:21The state government, which introduced the four week shutdowns last year, now beefing them up to 130 days.
00:26It's a model that's had success in Queensland, where 90 day store closures have seen a spike in legal tobacco
00:33sales.
00:34There are those who have been saying that Queensland does it much better, well I think you'll find out that
00:37South Australia is going to lead the pack after we do this.
00:40Landlords will also be able to evict their tenants if they're shut down, and could face a year in jail
00:45if they knowingly allow their property to be used for illicit tobacco sales.
00:49We want to work with them, but they have to actually do things too, can't just rely on the government
00:54to take care of the situation.
00:55Illicit tobacco dealers could also face jail terms of up to 17 years, while penalties for possessing commercial quantities of
01:03illegal smokes will increase to $21 million.
01:06The opposition wants to see the stiffer penalties backed by boots on the ground.
01:10The next step beyond actually having these laws brought forward to the parliament is, is there going to be some
01:16form of enforcement blitz?
01:17Despite all these changes, the government's not reforming everything.
01:21They've rejected a suggestion from the police commissioner to penalise consumers of illegal cigarettes.
01:26And they also won't be pushing their federal counterparts to cut the tobacco excise, something proponents argue would undercut the
01:33black market.
01:34The government gambling that it's focused on supply, rather than demand, is the right approach.
01:39It is true of what we seek for Democracy, which runs this path which is undercut simplify, so it's going
01:39to be a hot product آخر experiment.
01:40So we are putting it on the marketplace because it really fortunes like this is because it didn't fee.
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