Casey Costello
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Oct 2, 2026
Claudia O'NeillCORRESPONDENT
The scheme takes advantage of casual, often migrant laborers, and enables illicit cash to pass through to gang-controlled shell companies.
Claudia O'NeillCORRESPONDENT
Main industry body Master Builders is now tightening controls over the labor supply chain, while Minister Casey Costello's hinting at wider reform of contract conditions and procurement processes.
Sandy HodgeHOST
A budgeting service is supporting the Labour Party's plan to go after dodgy contracts.
Sandy HodgeHOST
If it formed a government, it would ban certain types of low-cover car insurance, make gym contracts easier to get out of, and ban hard selling of extended warranties for whiteware.
Jack TameSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
work.
Jack TameSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I recall we requested Casey Costello many times.
Jack TameSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Winston Peters hasn't been on this term, so he hasn't been on for three years
Toby ManhireHOST
now.
Bernadette SoaresGUEST
And we meet wonderful Indians here who are New Zealanders, who've come here, dedicated their life.
Bernadette SoaresGUEST
I'm just going off to a meeting now where Casey Costello is speaking down in South.
Bernadette SoaresGUEST
A lot of these Indian families are here for five generations.
Bernadette SoaresGUEST
Yeah, they are.
Raylene RamsayHOST
and illicit tobacco crackdowns on the horizon, but the challenge will be turning words into action.
Raylene RamsayHOST
Associate Health Minister Casey Costello has introduced a bill to create a new offence with greater penalties for breaching packaging regulations.
Raylene RamsayHOST
It would also up the maximum prison sentence for tobacco smuggling from six months to seven years, with customs seizing just under 12 million cigarettes this year to September.
Raylene RamsayHOST
Cardiac and Respiratory Foundation CEO Letitia Harding says it's a good first step.
Johnny BladesHOST
In news from Aotearoa, New Zealand's Cabinet has agreed on tougher penalties and new offences in the hope of cracking down on the illicit tobacco trade.
Johnny BladesHOST
Associate Health Minister Casey Costello says the rule changes target unlawful tobacco packaging, a clear indicator of illicitly imported product.
Johnny BladesHOST
By law, all cigarette packs in New Zealand must include health warnings and quitline information.
Johnny BladesHOST
Ms Costello says the new rules will increase the maximum fine for knowingly breaking packing rules from $50,000 to $100,000.
Johnny BladesHOST
In news from Aotearoa, New Zealand's Cabinet has agreed on tougher penalties and new offences in the hope of cracking down on the illicit tobacco trade.
Johnny BladesHOST
Associate Health Minister Casey Costello says the rule changes target unlawful tobacco packaging, a clear indicator of illicitly imported product.
Johnny BladesHOST
By law, all cigarette packs in New Zealand must include health warnings and quitline information.
Johnny BladesHOST
Ms Costello says the new rules will increase the maximum fine for knowingly breaking packing rules from $50,000 to $100,000.
Martyn BradburyHOST
Debbie questions the double standards between Aurini saying bullcrap and Brooke Van Velden saying the C word.
Martyn BradburyHOST
Casey Costello narks to the Assistant Speaker and falsely claims Debbie has referred to her as the C-word.
Martyn BradburyHOST
The Assistant Speaker throws Debbie out.
Martyn BradburyHOST
Willie Jackson jumps to her defence over the double standard.
Jack TameGUEST
Um, and her team say they've tried to make things work with her schedule, but they haven't been able to make it work.
Jack TameGUEST
Uh, I recall we requested Casey Costello-
Toby ManhireHOST
Mm
Jack TameGUEST
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Finn BlackwellCORRESPONDENT
Now, obviously, they couldn't tell me the details as it's ongoing.
Finn BlackwellCORRESPONDENT
But I have been talking to the Associate Health Minister, Casey Costello's office, and I understand that cabinets agreed on stricter penalties for those packing regulations that I talked about just then, the missing health warnings.
Finn BlackwellCORRESPONDENT
That's a large indicator that the products have been illicitly imported.
Finn BlackwellCORRESPONDENT
And so what Cabinet's agreed on, I understand, is that they'll be increasing the maximum fine for knowingly breaking those packaging rules from $50,000 to $100,000.
Johnny BladesHOST
Among the plan's first steps is creating a process for victims to get help, according to the ministry.
Johnny BladesHOST
The Associate Minister, Casey Costello, says trafficking is a difficult prosecution and changes have been made to legislation to make it fit for purpose.
Casey CostelloSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There has been a lot more activity and I think there's a lot more we can do
Johnny BladesHOST
She says trafficking is not just across the border, but also people being trafficked within New Zealand.
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