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Australia's tobacco commissioner has faced scrutiny at a NSW parliamentary inquiry over claims that changes to the cigarette excise would not curb the illegal tobacco trade.

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00:00What I've distilled of the evidence in front of me, it is not the priority for government at the moment.
00:05I know it's not a priority for government, right, but we're looking at a policy question.
00:09So we're interested, insofar as we can get it, in objective and meaningful evidence about what might actually work.
00:19So if it's not a priority for the federal government, I understand that.
00:24But is that a way of saying that your evidence is conditioned by what's a priority for the federal government
00:30rather than what is objectively sort of meaningful for us?
00:34I think I answered that before. Let me repeat my answer.
00:38My advice in my report and in my submission is my advice.
00:43I am not, my role as a statutory appointment is to put independent advice up to my government.
00:53My advice is that the four most important priorities to make the biggest impact with the evidence in front of
00:59me is strengthening consequences, demand reduction, increasing interagency capability and making sure we have unified data and intelligence sharing.
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