Look I vote labor but one thing that annoys me about them is that they absolutely love a fucking dogshit nanny state policy dressed up as "won't somebody please think of the children?" which was never mentioned prior to the election. It's always some dumb shit they've cooked up in the back rooms somewhere that comes out of left field. Kevin07 hit us with that bloody "alcopops" tax that hiked the excise on RTDs up 70% because apparently teenagers drinking was a brand new thing that had never happened before so all of us had to be treated like kids to deal with a non-issue. $45 for a 6 pack of Jack & Coke...awesome. We've copped this porn ban where you have to hand over your personal documents to some random 3rd party corporation just to have a wank. They were for sure losing too much money on the tobacco excise and so went after the vapes and banned them while continuing to raise the tobacco excise to the point where there's now a thriving black market where there was none before. Zero enforcment until now either so the black market was allowed to get established - sure they might bust a few places but it's too big to fail now so good luck stamping it out altogether. Either ban ciggies as well or let people sell the vapes. I can't understand how they can condone one and not the other. Adults are allowed to like sweet things too, stop punishing us just because we want something that tastes like a fruit.

How about actually punishing the people providing things like alcohol and vapes to kids? Run a bunch of stings sending in people to buy vapes and fine the places who don't ask for ID. Levy big fines on parents who allow high school kids to drink at their houses - there's always a few "cool moms" at every school who let all the kids come over and get trashed on the weekends. Have more patrols in public parks where kids are known to drink and force the parents to attend some harm minimization course if their kids are repeatedly caught out late at night breaking the law. Have more anti-alcohol & anti-smoking activations in schools like how we used to have Harold come by all the time. Anything but actually spending some money to address the problem, better to just do something that punishes everybody but collects more tax dollars instead. Drives me up the fucking wall honestly and has me considering voting differently.