As the member for Fadden says—I agree. It's actually more than unbelievable. Yes, it's unbelievable, but it's mind-blowing to think that this is a situation we're in. Because we don't do it, guess what happens? Those organised crime gangs go around and firebomb businesses and risk people's human health. People have died. People have ended up in hospital from fire burning. People have lost livelihoods. People have lost property. Insurance premiums are going through the roof. And it's all to reward organised crime.

We know full well and I do understand that the relationship between organised crime and the architecture of the modern Labor Party is embedded. It is a deep relationship where money, particularly taxpayers' money, is funnelled through the Labor Party to organised crime. I do understand that they use it as part of their corrupt patronage network, where people are paid off between the CFMEU and government contracts and decide who gets to sit in positions including in this chamber. Again, there's no objection while I'm saying these things. There's no suggestion that there's any misleading of the House. Welcome to the modern Labor Party.

The idea that that corruption translates into what happens on the streets of our communities and that corruption directly threatens the safety and the wellbeing of the Australian community is, frankly, despicable, but here we are. The Labor government turns a blind eye and, like that meme character sitting on a chair surrounded by a bonfire, says, 'This is fine.' It is so mind-blowing to me, but this is where we are. Illicit tobacco, superprofits for organised crime—and the response of Labor is, 'This is fine.'

We see this all over the country. In my electorate, we've seen it. News agencies being targeted, milk bars being targeted, convenience stores in Highett, in Cheltenham, in Sandringham Village, in Beaumaris—it pretty much doesn't matter where you are; illegal crime and illegal tobacco is running rife. We hear these local stories, and I want you to hear the story of Dave. He runs a business in the community. He says:

I would really like to pass my business on to my kids, but it is getting that marginal, purely because of external environment factors out of my control, that I really don't know how much longer we can go on. Every week or so we become aware of another business that has closed, and just wonder how many more will go before our politicians listen.

Listen! Listen to the voices within the community. They're not asking for a handout. They're not asking for any particular assistance. They just want the firebombings to stop. Dave has said he has one existential issue for his business, and it's called insurance. He says:

We pay almost $100k a year as it is, and with the growing illicit alcohol trade bringing the same criminality that we have seen with tobacco, insurance will simply become either unaffordable or simply not available, as it is now for tobacconists.

Fantastic work, well done, congratulations, Prime Minister. What we've seen now is a replication in tobacco policy of what we saw during the prohibition era in the United States. It's bad policy by bad governments that refuse to swallow their pride. They turn lawful citizens into criminals. They actively subvert the law to advance their mad ideology. Some of us don't hold this view, and the sooner this government is removed and their relationship to organised crime is removed, the better Australia.