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Coffee shop leaks, ‘swapsies’ and ‘corrupt conduct’: Report lifts lid on Border Force scandal
A National Anti-Corruption Commission report has unmasked an elite Border Force boss who leaked tobacco secrets.
- Nick McKenzie
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Hundreds of Home Affairs jobs to be cut in budget squeeze
Home Affairs secretary Stephanie Foster announced to staff in a briefing that the department had opened calls for voluntary redundancies across the department.
- Matthew Knott
Angus Taylor claims too many self-serving migrants are draining the nation
The opposition leader will use his first major policy speech to warn that too many self-serving migrants have taken advantage of Australia and eroded the national culture.
- James Massola and Natassia Chrysanthos
War on illegal tobacco unwinnable without price change: Border Force
Customs officers are seizing 6 million illegal cigarettes a day, but it admits that the illicit trade will continue unless smokers quit their cheap habit.
- Shane Wright
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A ghost ship, a border bungle and a missing tonne of cocaine
For weeks, authorities suspected a vessel crossing the Pacific was carrying a hidden drug shipment but when it headed for Australia’s coast, they looked the other way.
- Riley Walter
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- Road safety
Border Force blitz: Truckies’ visas axed in nationwide freight crackdown
A sweeping operation before the Easter surge has uncovered drivers living unlawfully in Australia for a decade and businesses exploiting migrant labour on the nation’s busiest highways.
- Rob Harris
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Machine capable of making 3.5 million cigarettes a day seized in Sydney tobacco bust
A criminal operation with the potential to produce millions of cigarettes daily has been thwarted in a raid that also netted 7.5 kilograms of loose-leaf tobacco.
- Daniel Lo Surdo
Two men arrested at Sydney Airport with $750,000 worth of cocaine: police allege
Officers swooped on two men from Europe when they landed in Sydney. They had allegedly swallowed more than 200 small packets of cocaine.
- David Barwell
Illegal tobacco boom linked to Queensland bikie group
The revelation follows the seizure of more than a million cigarettes and 9000 vapes from storage sheds on the Gold Coast this week.
- William Davis
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Police swoop on alleged $150m Sydney tobacco syndicate
Investigators raided more than a dozen homes and storage units across Sydney, seizing illegal cigarettes and cash.
- Riley Walter and Perry Duffin