Rowan Pike
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55 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And that is the main reason why you have avoided the catastrophe that Australia is seeing, because we don't embrace vapes.
We virtually ban those as well.
Yes, it is.
It's a very sad situation in Australia at the moment.
Of course, New Zealand doesn't want to get to that level, but the organisations are global organised crime syndicates.
There were traditional cigarette smugglers in Australia for many years, but at a much lower level and not at a level that
develop this sort of violence and or infighting amongst other groups.
But the profit margin that is to be made, and we're talking in the billions of dollars, so six, seven, eight, nine billion dollars is the size of the illicit market.
they think that's worth fighting over and they do.
So we've sort of become desensitised a little, certainly in Melbourne where I live, because there's firebombings virtually every day and that's not something that New Zealand wants to face.
I did hear a New Zealand commentator on radio the other day saying, you know,
It could be worth it just to keep the excise rates up high, like how bad could the crime get.
You wouldn't be saying that if you lived in Australia.
It can get very, very bad.
Organised crime is out of control.
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