Hip, hip, kaboom?: cigarette cake lit to mark 100 Victorian tobacco arson attacks

Victorian MP David Limbrick brought a cigarette-shaped cake to mark 100 tobacco-related arson attacks in Victoria as he calls for legislative change.

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00:00Happy arson to you! Happy arson to you! Happy arson Victoria! Happy arson to you!

00:08Hip hip kaboom! Hip hip kaboom! Hip hip kaboom! Well, Victorians are sick to death of

00:16organised crime running this state. It's time that we focused on the root causes

00:22of organised crime rather than looking at the consequences of it. What we need

00:28to do is the federal government needs to lower tobacco excise tax so that we

00:32don't have these incentives for organised crime and legalise vaping for

00:36adults. That's what we need to do if you want to stop these arson attacks

00:39otherwise they're just going to keep continuing. It's only blind luck that

00:44someone hasn't been killed already. I think that whoever is held, the people

00:50that need to be held responsible are the government themselves and the bureaucrats

00:53that are giving this advice. It's only a matter of time before someone gets

00:56killed. Recently we saw a near miss with some children that luckily they only

01:01suffered minor smoke inhalation is my understanding but it's only a matter of

01:05time before innocent civilians get killed in this gangland war. We need

01:10to stop it. We can stop it by attacking the root causes rather than playing

01:14this whack-a-mole approach that the governments are doing. We cannot police

01:18our way out of this. We need to look at the root causes that can be solved

01:22through the power of economics.

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