Chris Spyrou
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11,922 appearances
102 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Chris Spyrou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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First though, let's get into the headlines with Justine Landers-Hanley.
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It's Tuesday the 18th of August.
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Given that this matter is currently under police investigation, few details have been provided, but we understand that the players have been voluntarily interviewed by police.
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Sydney Swan's chief executive Matthew Pavlich called a press conference on Monday afternoon that lasted less than one minute.
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Take a listen.
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She says it's way too easy for kids to get their hands on illegal cigarettes and vapes, and that people are sick of the firebombings, the shootings, and watching tobacco shops burn, which are connected to the illicit trade.
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So she's pairing the price cut with tougher penalties and stronger border enforcement.
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But the policy isn't costed, and she's jumping ahead of the coalition, which has been quietly working up its own tobacco tax policy for months.
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It's interesting.
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Justine, like we are getting more and more policy announcements coming from One Nation.
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And it's interesting to see that they're leading with a cut on the tobacco excise.
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Like, we do know that the government has forecasted and they've put out budgetary forecasts of how much we do lose a year from lost revenue because of how high this excise is and the fact that people are drawn to the black market.
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Like, we do know it's burning a hole in the budget, but um later.
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Labour has resisted calls for a while now.
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Um, they've pretty much said that we're not gonna be lowering the excise and probably not to the extent that Pauline Hansen's calling for, but she's not alone in this.
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Um we know that big tobacco companies have been long calling for a cut to the excise and we also know that this is something that the coalition has been talking about for quite some time too.
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Yeah, Queensland police say they're aware of an altercation at the showgrounds, but have not received a formal complaint just yet.
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Of course, this is something that's alleged, like we we don't even have a police investigation that's ongoing at the moment, but if true, it's a pretty horrible thing, like to be someone that's volunteering for a political party, whatever that political party is in this country, like you don't deserve this to happen to you.
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And I mean, I know that Albert comes out and he talks about
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About it all the time that we need to bring the temperature down.
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