Is the tax on tampons

finally going to be removed?
It is of course utterly wrong that there was ever a tax on an essential item associated with feminine hygiene...or any other item associated with feminine hygiene. It isn't essential for men to shave but there is no tax on razor blades. Why?
The Federal Treasurer is asking the state Treasurers to agree that the tax should be removed. They don't want to lose the $30m a year that the tax generates. He is saying "find something else to tax".
I am sure there is something they can find.
I have long been opposed to the tax on tampons. If they keep those letters for ever and a day - which I doubt - there will be a record of yours truly writing to her local state MP and her federal MP about this. They actually agreed with me. My former federal MP had also trained as a doctor and was well aware of the problem.
It also made me aware of some other oddities about the Downunder "GST" (think VAT ). 
There is a tax on books. Knowledge - or the acquisition thereof - should not be taxed. Books are expensive anyway - for a number of reasons that has nothing to do with their actual cost - and this makes them even more expensive.
There is a tax on some items of food but not on others. Plain milk is GST free, flavoured milk attracts GST, a sugary glaze is GST free but icing on the item makes it attract GST.  Toothbrushes are GST free but toothpaste attracts GST.  Yes, it is complicated - unnecessarily so. Governments always want more money.
My maternal grandfather was a "precision engineer". He made and repaired then very complex items for hospitals, university laboratories, surveyors, the space research industry and so on.  He worked in extremely small metric measurements - and they really were tiny. It was often extremely slow work and required intense concentration. 
I can therefore imagine his reaction to the fact that GST is applied to knitting needles because they are classed as "precision" instruments. The variation between needles which are all supposed to be the same size can, in his terms, be considered enormous.
In his younger days the Senior Cat made many beautiful boxes from rare, naturally fallen, timber. All of them required "joints" to fit the pieces together. They had to be made with great precision too. Yes, GST applied to some of the tools he used - but not to others.
I have given up trying to understand how the GST works. What I do know is that it should never have applied to tampons...and that if they want to tax my knitting needles as precision instruments then they should make sure they are the precise measurement they say they are.