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Coalition prepared to block alcopop tax

'Bad policy': Nick Minchin (File photo) (AAP: Alan Porritt)

Senate Opposition leader Nick Minchin says the Coalition is ready to use its numbers in the upper house to block tax increases on pre-mixed drinks and luxury cars.

Senator Minchin says the Opposition is entitled to use its numbers to block the measures included in this week's Budget.

He told ABC's NewsRadio that the tax on 'alcopops' is bad policy.

"That is a very poor policy measure which will simply result in the substitution of other alcoholic drinks and may result indeed in a worse situation with respect to so-called 'binge drinking'," he said.

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