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917 - Still no illicit tobacco shop closures in Gippsland</h1> 918 919 <p class="gh-post-page__excerpt">The State Governmentâs Tobacco Licensing Victoria taskforce has so far issued âshort termâ closure notices to 51 illicit tobacco shops â none of them in regional Victoria.</p> 920 921 <div class="gh-post-page__author gh-post-page__author--content"> 922 <img class="gh-avatar" 923 src="https://www.sgst.com.au/assets/images/avatarDefault.jpg?v=GLEWSX0ikC80gr2y" 924 alt="Michael Giles profile image"> 925 926 <div class="gh-post-page__author-name"> 927 <span class="gh-post-page__author--start">by</span> 928 <a href="https://www.sgst.com.au/author/michael-giles/" class="gh-post-page__author-name--link">Michael Giles</a> 929 </div> 930 931 <div class="gh-post-page__author-date"> 932 <span class="gh-post-page__author--start">Published</span> 933 <time class="gh-post-info__date" datetime="2026-10-02"> 934 October 02, 2026 935 </time> 936 </div> 937 938 <div class="gh-post-page__share"> 939 <a class="gh-post-page__share-link" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.sgst.com.au/too-slow-too-weak-still-no-illicit-tobacco-shop-closures-in-gippsland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-label="Share on facebook"> 940 <svg width="26" height="26" viewBox="1 1 24 24" fill="#00529f" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 941 <g> 942 <path 943 d="M13.0596 3.25C7.6419 3.25 3.25 7.6419 3.25 13.0596C3.25 17.9559 6.83722 22.0141 11.5269 22.75V15.8952H9.03612V13.0596H11.5269V10.8984C11.5269 8.43989 12.9913 7.08187 15.232 7.08187C16.3053 7.08187 17.4279 7.27346 17.4279 7.27346V9.68755H16.1909C14.9724 9.68755 14.5924 10.4437 14.5924 11.2195V13.0596H17.313L16.8781 15.8952H14.5924V22.75C19.2819 22.0141 22.8692 17.9559 22.8692 13.0596C22.8692 7.6419 18.4773 3.25 13.0596 3.25Z" /> 944 </g> 945</svg> </a> 946 <a class="gh-post-page__share-link" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.sgst.com.au/too-slow-too-weak-still-no-illicit-tobacco-shop-closures-in-gippsland/&text='Too%20slow%2C%20too%20weak'%20-%20Still%20no%20illicit%20tobacco%20shop%20closures%20in%20Gippsland" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-label="Share on twitter"> 947 <svg width="26" height="26" viewBox="0 0 26 26" fill="#00529f" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 948<g> 949<path d="M9.69583 3.25H3.25L10.8569 13.3925L3.66433 21.6666H6.10456L11.9871 14.8995L17.0625 21.6667H23.5083L15.5815 11.0976L22.4034 3.25H19.9632L14.4513 9.59066L9.69583 3.25ZM17.9833 19.825L6.93333 5.09167H8.775L19.825 19.825H17.9833Z"/> 950</g> 951</svg> 952 </a> 953 <a class="gh-post-page__share-link" href="mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20article&body=https://www.sgst.com.au/too-slow-too-weak-still-no-illicit-tobacco-shop-closures-in-gippsland/" aria-label="Share via email"> 954 <svg width="32" height="32" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="#00529f"> 955 <path d="M24 5.353v14.869l-5.802-7.252-1.103.882 5.858 7.324H1.046l5.858-7.324-1.103-.882L0 20.223V5.353l12 10.406L24 5.353zM24 2.825v.658l-12 10.406L0 3.483V2.825h24z" fill-rule="evenodd"></path> 956</svg> </a> 957 <button class="gh-post-page__share-link copyToClipboardBtn" aria-label="Copy to clipboard button"> 958 <svg width="32" height="32" fill="#00529f" viewbox="0 0 32 32" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 959 <path 960 d="M19.92 4.271a7.21 7.21 0 0 0-2.832 1.017c-.615.385-1.224.938-2.934 2.665-1.531 1.546-1.614 1.657-1.549 2.06.069.425.608.92 1.001.92.11 0 .267-.025.349-.056.082-.031.941-.842 1.91-1.802.969-.961 1.882-1.833 2.028-1.939.529-.381 1.326-.718 2-.845.441-.083 1.364-.082 1.814.001a5.106 5.106 0 0 1 2.752 1.502c.627.649.993 1.292 1.26 2.216.
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9906.jpg 2400w" 991 sizes="(min-width: 1200px) 1200px, 90vw" 992 src="https://storage.ghost.io/c/23/e6/23e60d77-80de-481b-a54a-612da11d2e4f/content/images/2026/10/Cigarettes-OBrien2_4026.jpg" 993 alt="'Too slow, too weak' - Still no illicit tobacco shop closures in Gippsland" 994 class="gh-post-page__image" 995 > 996 </picture> 997 <figcaption class="gh-card-image__caption"><b>Gippsland South MP Danny OâBrien has called the State Governmentâs so-called crackdown on the stateâs illicit tobacco trade as too weak, too slow and too easily avoided by organised crime.</b></figcaption> 998 </figure> 999 1000 1001 1002 <p>THE State Governmentâs Tobacco Licensing Victoria taskforce has so far issued âshort termâ closure notices to 51 illicit tobacco shops â none of them in regional Victoria.</p><p>Certainly, none in Bass Coast or South Gippsland.</p><p>Since the government announced on September 9 that it was âslamming the doorâ on Victoriaâs Illicit tobacco trade, theyâve managed to shut down just three outlets per working day.</p><p>Victoria Police say there are more than 1000 across the state, some say up to as many as 1600 outlets, in every suburb and every town.</p><p>Theyâve even taken to updating their âTobacco shop closuresâ website weekly, on a Friday afternoon, instead of daily as they had been doing since the September 9 fanfare around the launch of the âslamming the doorsâ campaign.</p><p>At that rate, theyâll have closed 230 shops by Christmas, at which point, theyâll start reopening again, after serving out their âshort-termâ closure order.</p><p>Itâs not good enough, according to Gippsland South MP Danny OâBrien.</p><p>âLaborâs efforts to tackle illegal tobacco and the organised crime behind it are too slow, too weak and too easy to beat,â Mr OâBrien said this week.</p><p>âThis isnât a crackdown, itâs a token effort.</p><p>âAn elected Nationals and Liberal Government will bolster laws and close down retailers who break the law so Victorians can see real results, not spin.â</p><p>His comments come after reports in the Age in recent days that the crime syndicates were moving to evade the new closure laws by directing their stores to trade outside the hours when TLV officers are rostered on, including weekends.</p><p>This hasnât been a problem in regional areas where they are yet to visit, apart from Geelong, where social media lit up in the past week as TLV taskforce officers arrived in town.</p><p>But there has been some sign of outlets in Bass Coast and South Gippsland opening and closing their doors without notice.</p><p>The practice of keeping most of their stash of illegal tobacco in the boots of cars nearby has long been the case and is continuing locally, even without any sign of the governmentâs so-called crackdown.</p><p>Monash MP, Mary Aldred, who has been leading the Federal Oppositionâs campaign to cut the excise and drive organised crime out of the tobacco market agrees with the criticism of the Victorian Governmentâs efforts to date.</p><p>âThe Victorian Labor Government claimed victory on illegal tobacco shops before any were shut, and itâs clear they havenât sent anyone to our region. Itâs Ben Carrollâs own version of wharfie time,â said Ms Aldred last week.</p><p>âLetâs be clear about who is profiting. Bikie gangs and criminal cartels are selling vapes to children, while illegal cigarettes have striped $42 billion from excise that could be funding roads and hospitals,â she said.</p><p>âAustraliaâs black market for tobacco is now among the largest anywhere in the world. As much as 80 per cent of the tobacco consumed in this country is illicit, and those aren't my numbers, they come from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.â</p><p>Ms Aldred said the Federal Governmentâs excise tax increases, which now accounted for 71.5 per cent of the cost of a legal pack of cigarettes, had provided the opportunity for a black-market bonanza, but they werenât prepared to take action to fix the massive law and order problem they had caused.</p><p>âLabor has effectively handed criminals a $30-a-pack margin to undercut every law-abiding shopkeeper in Australia, and they have seized it with both hands.</p><p>âThatâs why the Coalition will cut the tobacco excise by 80% to claw back the illegal market and back it in with properly resourced enforcement.â</p><p>In the past week, the taskforce has issued notices to one store in Lara, one in Thomson, and one in Corio, all outer suburbs of Geelong, and three in Geelong.</p><p>The other 45 short-term closures of illicit tobacco stores have all been in metro Melbourne, mostly in the cityâs west.</p><p>Under the new laws introduced by State Parliament, the TLV taskforce
1002can issue both short-term closure notices and long-term closure notices, but the latter requires them to apply to the heavily overburdened Magistratesâ Court for a closure order.</p><p>So far, no long-term closure notices have been issued.</p><p>Tobacco Licensing Victoria says the short-term closures stop businesses from selling illicit tobacco while they consider other enforcement action, including prosecution.</p><p>They say significant penalties, including fines of up to $2.5 million and 20 yearsâ jail, apply to anyone who enters, operates from or makes a sale from premises that have been closed.</p> 1003 1004 </div> 1005 1006 <div class="gh-post-page__author gh-post-page__author--content"> 1007 1008 <div class="gh-post-page__author-date"> 1009 <span class="gh-post-page__author--start">Updated</span> 1010 <time class="gh-post-info__date" datetime="2026-10-02"> 1011 October 02, 2026 3:08 pm | 2 hours ago 1012 </time> 1013 </div> 1014 1015 <div class="gh-post-page__share"> 1016 <a class="gh-post-page__share-link" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.sgst.com.au/too-slow-too-weak-still-no-illicit-tobacco-shop-closures-in-gippsland/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-label="Share on facebook"> 1017 <svg width="26" height="26" viewBox="1 1 24 24" fill="#00529f" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 1018 <g> 1019 <path 1020 d="M13.0596 3.25C7.6419 3.25 3.25 7.6419 3.25 13.0596C3.25 17.9559 6.83722 22.0141 11.5269 22.75V15.8952H9.03612V13.0596H11.5269V10.8984C11.5269 8.43989 12.9913 7.08187 15.232 7.08187C16.3053 7.08187 17.4279 7.27346 17.4279 7.27346V9.68755H16.1909C14.9724 9.68755 14.5924 10.4437 14.5924 11.2195V13.0596H17.313L16.8781 15.8952H14.5924V22.75C19.2819 22.0141 22.8692 17.9559 22.8692 13.0596C22.8692 7.6419 18.4773 3.25 13.0596 3.25Z" /> 1021 </g> 1022</svg> </a> 1023 <a class="gh-post-page__share-link" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.sgst.com.au/too-slow-too-weak-still-no-illicit-tobacco-shop-closures-in-gippsland/&text='Too%20slow%2C%20too%20weak'%20-%20Still%20no%20illicit%20tobacco%20shop%20closures%20in%20Gippsland" target="_blank" rel="noopener" aria-label="Share on twitter"> 1024 <svg width="26" height="26" viewBox="0 0 26 26" fill="#00529f" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 1025<g> 1026<path d="M9.69583 3.25H3.25L10.8569 13.3925L3.66433 21.6666H6.10456L11.9871 14.8995L17.0625 21.6667H23.5083L15.5815 11.0976L22.4034 3.25H19.9632L14.4513 9.59066L9.69583 3.25ZM17.9833 19.825L6.93333 5.09167H8.775L19.825 19.825H17.9833Z"/> 1027</g> 1028</svg> 1029 </a> 1030 <a class="gh-post-page__share-link" href="mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20article&body=https://www.sgst.com.au/too-slow-too-weak-still-no-illicit-tobacco-shop-closures-in-gippsland/" aria-label="Share via email"> 1031 <svg width="32" height="32" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="#00529f"> 1032 <path d="M24 5.353v14.869l-5.802-7.252-1.103.882 5.858 7.324H1.046l5.858-7.324-1.103-.882L0 20.223V5.353l12 10.406L24 5.353zM24 2.825v.658l-12 10.406L0 3.483V2.825h24z" fill-rule="evenodd"></path> 1033</svg> </a> 1034 <button class="gh-post-page__share-link copyToClipboardBtn" aria-label="Copy to clipboard button"> 1035 <svg width="32" height="32" fill="#00529f" viewbox="0 0 32 32" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> 1036 <path 1037 d="M19.92 4.271a7.21 7.21 0 0 0-2.832 1.017c-.615.385-1.224.938-2.934 2.665-1.531 1.546-1.614 1.657-1.549 2.06.069.425.608.92 1.001.92.11 0 .267-.025.349-.056.082-.031.941-.842 1.91-1.802.969-.961 1.882-1.833 2.028-1.939.529-.381 1.326-.718 2-.845.441-.083 1.364-.082 1.814.001a5.106 5.106 0 0 1 2.752 1.502c.627.649.993 1.292 1.26 2.216.102.353.121.543.121 1.243 0 .909-.078 1.298-.399 2.006-.33.727-.612 1.064-2.435 2.902-.975.984-1.798 1.855-1.829 1.937a1.16 1.16 0 0 0-.057.35c0 .392.496.931.92 1 .403.066.514-.018 2.06-1.549a72.228 72.228 0 0 0 1.908-1.945c1.254-1.4 1.835-2.883 1.84-4.701.005-1.879-.651-3.499-1.965-4.857a7.057 7.057 0 0 0-3.758-2.048c-.559-.107-1.645-.144-2.205-.077m.133 6.272c-.219.103-9.32 9.174-9.488 9.457-.165.278-.149.614.045.92.224.353.537.547.884.547.242 0 .31-.028.564-.224.451-.35 9.199-9.14 9.304-9.35.118-.233.116-.599-.004-.788-.356-.562-.851-.775-1.305-.562m-10.56 2.072c-.217.096-3.532 3.402-3.903 3.892a7.085 7.085 0 0 0-1.187 2.34c-.198.684-.252 1.091-.253 1.9-.001 1.899.654 3.503 1.994 4.884 1.426 1.469 3.096 2.177 5.109 2.166 1.108-.007 2.03-.21 2.958-.653.913-.436 1.177-.656 3.161-2.629 1.034-1.028 1.916-1.946 1.96-2.04.124-.26.101-.503-.073-.778-.336-.53-.846-.723-1.298-.491-.096.048-.978.885-1.961 1.859-.983.975-1.903 1.85-2.044 1.945a5.26 5.26 0 0 1-1.682.707c-.628.13-1.74.111-2.301-.04-.882-.237-1.555-.623-2.246-1.289-.756-.728-1.154-1.389-1.445-2.394-.103-.357-.122-.545-.122-1.247 0-.703.019-.89.122-1.248a5.463 5.463 0 0 1 .739-1.57c.138-.196 1.037-1.148 1.998-2.116.961-.968 1.773-1.828 1.804-1.91.103-.27.068-.534-.104-.794-.308-.466-.823-.673-1.226-.494" 1038 fill-rule="evenodd"/> 1039</svg>
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1666<script> 1667 // --- Configuration: add your URLs here --- 1668 const instagramLink = "https://www.instagram.com/sentineltimes"; 1669 const linkedinLink = ""; 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 // --- No changes below this line --- 1675 const socialsContainers = document.querySelectorAll(".gh-social-icons"); 1676 1677 const instagramIconHTML = `<a class="gh-social-icons-link" href="${instagramLink}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="My Instagram Link"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="26" height="27" viewBox="0 0 26 27" fill="white"><path d="M13 10.575C11.3841 10.575 10.075 11.8845 10.075 13.5C10.075 15.1159 11.3845 16.425 13 16.425C14.6159 16.425 15.925 15.1155 15.925 13.5C15.925 11.8841 14.6155 10.575 13 10.575ZM13 8.625C15.6914 8.625 17.875 10.8062 17.875 13.5C17.875 16.1915 15.6938 18.375 13 18.375C10.3085 18.375 8.125 16.1938 8.125 13.5C8.125 10.8085 10.3062 8.625 13 8.625ZM19.3375 8.38042C19.3375 9.05328 18.7907 9.59919 18.1188 9.59919C17.4459 9.59919 16.9 9.05244 16.9 8.38042C16.9 7.7084 17.4467 7.1625 18.1188 7.1625C18.7899 7.16165 19.3375 7.7084 19.3375 8.38042ZM13 5.7C10.5874 5.7 10.1941 5.70639 9.07201 5.75635C8.30749 5.79224 7.79501 5.89507 7.31885 6.07993C6.8957 6.24404 6.59046 6.44001 6.26523 6.76524C5.93875 7.09171 5.74313 7.39614 5.57968 7.81948C5.3944 8.29674 5.2916 8.80841 5.25636 9.57187C5.2059 10.6483 5.2 11.0245 5.2 13.5C5.2 15.9126 5.20639 16.3059 5.25635 17.4279C5.29225 18.1921 5.39521 18.7053 5.57963 19.1804C5.74417 19.6041 5.94053 19.91 6.26419 20.2337C6.59196 20.561 6.89729 20.7573 7.31662 20.9192C7.79858 21.1055 8.31074 21.2084 9.07186 21.2436C10.1483 21.2941 10.5245 21.3 13 21.3C15.4127 21.3 15.8059 21.2936 16.9279 21.2436C17.6905 21.2079 18.2041 21.1046 18.6804 20.9203C19.1029 20.7562 19.4099 20.5592 19.7338 20.2358C20.0616 19.9075 20.2574 19.6029 20.4195 19.1826C20.6053 18.7024 20.7085 18.1896 20.7437 17.4282C20.7941 16.3517 20.8 15.9754 20.8 13.5C20.8 11.0874 20.7936 10.6942 20.7437 9.57209C20.7078 8.80933 20.6045 8.29495 20.4201 7.81885C20.2564 7.39687 20.0597 7.09069 19.7347 6.76524C19.4077 6.43822 19.1041 6.24301 18.6805 6.07968C18.2036 5.89455 17.6911 5.79161 16.9281 5.75636C15.8517 5.7059 15.4754 5.7 13 5.7ZM13 3.75C15.6487 3.75 15.9794 3.75975 17.0195 3.8085C18.057 3.85644 18.7647 4.02056 19.3863 4.26188C20.0289 4.50969 20.5717 4.84444 21.1136 5.38637C21.6547 5.92832 21.9895 6.47269 22.2381 7.11375C22.4786 7.7345 22.6428 8.443 22.6915 9.48056C22.7378 10.5206 22.75 10.8512 22.75 13.5C22.75 16.1488 22.7403 16.4794 22.6915 17.5194C22.6435 18.557 22.4786 19.2647 22.2381 19.8862C21.9903 20.529 21.6547 21.0717 21.1136 21.6137C20.5717 22.1548 20.0265 22.4895 19.3863 22.7381C18.7647 22.9787 18.057 23.1428 17.0195 23.1915C15.9794 23.2378 15.6487 23.25 13 23.25C10.3512 23.25 10.0206 23.2403 8.98056 23.1915C7.943 23.1435 7.23612 22.9787 6.61375 22.7381C5.97187 22.4903 5.42831 22.1548 4.88637 21.6137C4.34444 21.0717 4.0105 20.5265 3.76188 19.8862C3.52056 19.2647 3.35725 18.557 3.3085 17.5194C3.26219 16.4794 3.25 16.1488 3.25 13.5C3.25 10.8512 3.25975 10.5206 3.3085 9.48056C3.35643 8.44219 3.52056 7.73531 3.76188 7.11375C4.00968 6.47188 4.34444 5.92832 4.88637 5.38637C5.42831 4.84444 5.97269 4.5105 6.61375 4.26188C7.23531 4.02056 7.94219 3.85725 8.98056 3.8085C10.0206 3.76219 10.3512 3.75 13 3.75Z"/></svg></a>`; 1678 1679 const linkedinIconHTML = `<a class="gh-social-icons-link" href="${linkedinLink}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="My LinkedIn Link"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="26" height="26" viewBox="0 0 640 640" fill="white"><path d="M512 96L127.9 96C110.3 96 96 110.5 96 128.3L96 511.7C96 529.5 110.3 544 127.9 544L512 544C529.6 544 544 529.5 544 511.7L544 128.3C544 110.5 529.6 96 512 96zM231.4 480L165 480L165 266.2L231.5 266.2L231.5 480L231.4 480zM198.2 160C219.5 160 236.7 177.2 236.7 198.5C236.7 219.8 219.5 237 198.2 237C176.9 237 159.7 219.8 159.7 198.5C159.7 177.2 176.9 160 198.2 160zM480.3 480L413.9 480L413.9 376C413.9 351.2 413.4 319.3 379.4 319.3C344.8 319.3 339.5 346.3 339.5 374.2L339.5 480L273.1 480L273.1 266.2L336.8 266.2L336.8 295.4L337.7 295.4C346.6 278.6 368.3 260.9 400.6 260.9C467.8 260.9 480.3 305.2 480.3 362.8L480.3 480z"/></svg></a>`; 1680 1681 if (socialsContainers.length > 0) {
1682 socialsContainers.forEach((container) => { 1683 // Add the Instagram icon DO NOT CHANGE 1684 if (instagramLink && instagramLink !== "INSTAGRAM_URL_HERE") { 1685 container.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", instagramIconHTML); 1686 } 1687 // Add the LinkedIn icon DO NOT CHANGE 1688 if (linkedinLink && linkedinLink !== "LINKEDIN_URL_HERE") { 1689 container.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", linkedinIconHTML); 1690 } 1691 }); 1692 } 1693</script>
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