Shortcut: The surge of violence in Victoria's illicit tobacco market
Australian True Crime
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4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.
Over the past eight months, more than 30 tobacco stores in Victoria have fallen victim to a series of fire bombings due to a burgeoning turf war.
Marta Pascual Juanola is a crime reporter for The Age, and has written a series of stories on Victoria's illegal tobacco industry.
She joins us on this episode of Australian True Crime to talk about the increasing violence in this industry, and the surprisingly big players involved.
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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.4 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. |
| 0:29.0 | So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will |
| 0:33.8 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
| 0:38.4 | true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander |
| 0:42.0 | listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 0:47.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:59.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:07.0 | A couple of weeks ago, Motley crew drummer Tommy Lee posted a receipt from a |
| 1:16.4 | Melbourne 7-11 to his Instagram account. It demonstrated that he'd purchased four |
| 1:21.3 | packets of Marlborough gold cigarettes at a cost of $251.96 |
| 1:27.6 | Australian. Those same four packets of Marlborough Golds would have cost Tommy $36 in the States. |
| 1:36.0 | Many of his 1.8 million followers were shocked at the cost of the cigarettes in this country, |
| 1:41.0 | but the high tax on tobacco is just part of the Australian government's long-term |
| 1:44.8 | effort to eradicate smoking altogether. |
| 1:47.8 | The official line is that we're on track to meet the target of having below 10% of our adult population identifying as daily smokers by 2025. |
| 1:58.4 | As you're about to hear though, those statistics are very fuzzy around the edges, thanks to the burgeoning black market in |
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