Regulating and taxing nicotine vapes could inject billions into the federal budget’s bottom line. Queensland faces a day of reckoning with its fire threat, as a nightmare cocktail of high winds and temperatures in the upper 30s. A new tax on Victorian GPs has been thrown into chaos. NSW Police recruits are in for a major payday. More South Australians are dying than usual with the highest rates of death in country towns.

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