The article ‘Border Force should better protect staff from Covid: Community and Public Sector Union’ published in the Canberra Times on 8 July 2021 is inaccurate. The Department of Home Affairs has consistently worked ... Read More →
The Australian Border Force (ABF) is warning those attempting to import products containing cannabis or cannabidiol (CBD) oil their items will be seized at the border and they may face prosecution, unless they have permission to import t... Read More →
FRAN KELLY: Well, a battle royale has broken out between state and federal leaders over the number of people returning from overseas and going into hotel quarantine. Queensland, Victoria, and WA say too many people are being granted exem... Read More →
This month, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Australia established Project Portcullis 2021, the ASEAN-Australia Task Force on Illicit Tobacco to combat the smuggling of illicit tobacco in a month of action. Through... Read More →
Data sourced from the Inbound Passenger Card (IPC) showing travellers enter Australia to visit friends, go on holiday or for business trips does not reflect the categories under which people are approved to arrive into the country. The ... Read More →
A 47-year-old Victorian woman has been sentenced to nine months jail after pleading guilty to a number of charges relating to providing unregistered migration assistance. The operation commenced in April 2018 after the Australian Border... Read More →
As outlined in our previous media release dated 15 April 2021, commentary stating that half of travellers arriving into Australia are non-citizens is misleading in the context of transmitting COVID19 and taking quarantine places away fro... Read More →
A joint Australia-Malaysia operation to target maritime crime in Malaysian territorial waters in the Strait of Malacca has concluded in Langkawi today. The fifteenth iteration of the Malaysia Coast Guard (MCG) led maritime law enforceme... Read More →
Organised Crime Squad detectives have charged two people after seizing nearly 10kg of ‘ice’ following an investigation into the alleged importation of prohibited drugs. On Friday 2 April 2021, officers from Australian Border... Read More →
Editor’s note: photographs and vision available via highlight including interview with Detective Superintendent Matthew Ciantar A Sydney man have been charged in connection to a seizure in Belgium of cocaine with a gross weight of... Read More →
Two Perth men have been charged over the importation of 3.99 kilograms of cocaine into WA, worth a potential $1.6 million, hidden in purses sent from the United Kingdom. Read More →
The latest COVID-19 detector dog research and trials commenced at Adelaide Airport today. Six dogs, including four Australian Border Force (ABF) detector dogs, one South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service (SAMFS) dog and one dog from ... Read More →
The Indonesian Coast Guard (Bakamla RI), and the Australian Border Force (ABF) led by Maritime Border Command (MBC) has successfully gathered representatives from 35 neighbouring countries to join the 10th Maritime Security Desktop Exerc... Read More →
Two Sydney men have been charged in connection to the 2020 seizure of 156 kilograms of pseudoephedrine, as a result of Operation Ironside. An AFP-led investigation into the activities of an airline freight employee suspected of using hi... Read More →
Editor’s Note: vision and photographs available via Hightail Five men have been arrested in Western Australia over the importation of 77 kilograms of heroin, which Australian Border Force allegedly found in a consignment of indust... Read More →
Coinciding with the United Nations’ International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, illegal foreign fishing vessels in Australia’s northern waters have been targeted in a two-week operatio... Read More →
The Australian Border Force (ABF) is undertaking a targeted period of action against imported building products at risk of containing asbestos. Asbestos is a prohibited import. Breathing in asbestos fibres can have devastating health eff... Read More →
Two men have been sentenced after their two separate attempts to import illicit tobacco products were thwarted by the Australian Border Force (ABF). On 19th May 2021, a 36-year-old Victorian man was sentenced to two years imprisonment w... Read More →
Cooperation between the Australian Border Force (ABF), Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) and Maritime Border Command (MBC), a joint agency task force enabled by both the ABF and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has disru... Read More →
Two Sydney men have faced Central Local Court (Wednesday 26 May 2021) after allegedly importing $1.25 million worth of cocaine in two air freight parcels. A 39-year-old Green Valley man and a 66-year-old Bonnyrigg man were arrested on T... Read More →
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