🍻 Beer Price Rise Held For The First Time In 40 YEARS!

The Albanese government has introduced the Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, aiming to pause draught beer tax increases for the first time in 40 years.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Jonesy and Demander podcast. I know
that the interest rate rise is affected to all of us.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well you work, I mean, you're a slum landlord. How
many places of you are you playing off? You know?
This is almost fingers to count on.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's something we don't need to talk about, right okay,
And they're not slums what I am concerned about.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
And this has been something that's been going along for
a long long time in Australia. For the first time
in forty years, they're going to hang on to the
price of Beerho's.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Going to start raining?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Men?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Are you're going to do what?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
No, for the first time in forty years. So for
forty years the governments have been lifting the price of
the xcise on beer, each time with inflation. So right
now we're playing anywhere between thirty and forty percent on
a cartoner beer. So you're to cartoner beer, you get
like a cartner beer. These days, you're looking up to

(00:58):
between sixty and seventy dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
And up to forty of that is take of it.
So really, if we need another rum rebellion, if you look.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
At it, you're paying. We should be paying, and probably
about thirty eight bucks for carton a beer, a thirty
block of your favorite beer. That's what you should be
paid for. So if this goes through, this will be great.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
They're saying they're not going to raise.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
The Australia's alcoholic X size is among the world's highest
and automatically rises twice a year with inflation. So I've
passed the bill will freeze indexation for two years starting
on August one, twenty twenty five. Ie, this doesn't coincide
when the gravity thing that you were talking about the
other day on ten hag You think that.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Was supposed to be August as well, wasn't it when
the Earth would lose gravity for seven seconds and it'd
all be plummeted and you get injured.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, I'm I'm rooting for the bill, okay, you know,
but forty like it could be worse.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
It could be married At first sight worlds

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think the end of the world wouldn't be such
a bad thing.