Continuing from Good Deals 2023
This article may end up pay walled so I will paste some of the content:
The head of the Australian Border Force says the government’s plan to abolish retail vape sales is a “work in progress” with no funding attached to the crackdown in this month’s federal budget.
Commissioner Michael Outram warned that banning vapes at the border won’t be enough to stamp out a rampant black market, as his organisation was already only managing to detect a quarter of illicit drugs making their way into Australia.
But there was no funding in the May budget allocated to enforcing the crackdown – which will require products to be seized at the border and retail sales to be policed at a state level – because the federal government is still figuring out how to regulate and execute the ban with states and territories.
A spokeswoman for Butler said that work was underway, with states and territories expected to play a “strong role”.
“At the Commonwealth level, we recognise additional resourcing will be required for the Therapeutic Goods Administration and the Australian Border Force. There is a commitment from the government to properly fund these activities from changes to the tobacco excise,” she said.
NSW Premier Chris Minns has conceded the vape ban will be difficult to enforce and has indicated his government would seek support from the Commonwealth.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, whose state budget on Tuesday sought to rein in spending, has said he would engage on the issue in good faith but was concerned the Commonwealth would push costs onto states.
Police Federation of Australia chief executive Scott Weber said officers were already under-resourced at a state and territory level, meaning money for local crackdowns on illegal vapes would probably need to come from federal coffers.
which is fine for Vapers but not fine if you actually want to address the issue of black market vapes.
“on the agenda, we’ll take that on notice” = we have no idea 