Australian Border Force

And whereas yesterday we saw that the Speaker of Parliament has rejected the minority's motion for bipartisan probe into narcotic seizures.

So among the incidents cited by the seizure of 3.9 metric tons of cocaine by French customs at Dunkin' on September 10th, 2026, as well as a seizure of 320 kilograms of meth by the Australian Border Force in June 2026, and earlier cocaine interceptions in Takoradi and Pedu in Cape Coast.

However, ruling on a motion at Parliament yesterday, Mr. Bagbin said there was substantial factual overlap between the proposed parliamentary inquiry and matters currently before the court.

He said the proposed investigation could involve evidence, witnesses, conduct, and questions of responsibility relevant to pending judicial proceedings.

Across the world, speak to UNODC.

Speak to Australian Border Force.

Australian Border Force, which busted the 280 million methamphetamine, they are not part of the standing committee that does the fiscal inspection.

The Australian border and the Dunkirk Authority, which busted our 261 million, they are not part of the standing committee because there are 1,500 and over containers that pass through.

And if you want to line up 16 agencies, that's 13, it was 16.

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plus the most embarrassing Keystone Cop operation in Australian Border Force history.

This is amazing.

Out of Townsville, that story.

Good point.

And if this isn't the Keystone Cop story of the year, Alex, it goes close.

The Australian Border Force confiscates a yacht with a huge amount of coke on board and leaves it on a wharf in Townsville.

Yeah, and when they saw it months before, they went onto the yacht because they thought it was a bit suspicious coming from Vanuatu to Townsville Marina.

How the man, a Somali-born Australian citizen, came to be radicalised was expected to emerge in court, Ms Hudson added.

The arrest followed an investigation that began with a referral from the Australian Border Force, which intercepted the man and searched his luggage at Melbourne Airport in November of 2020 as he left for Egypt.

A search of his mobile phone allegedly turned up suspicious content.

Agents seized the device but allowed the man to continue on to Egypt, where he stayed for a six-month period.

The man will be charged with membership of a terrorism organisation, possessing and controlling violent extremist material and using a carriage service to cause offence.

This investigation commenced as a result of information being provided to the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team from the Australian Border Force after they seized electronic devices containing suspicious material from the man during his departure from Melbourne Airport.

Devices were later seized by police and initial review revealed the man allegedly viewed and shared ISIS material.

Forensic analysis of the devices revealed he allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and performed the role of an online propagandist from Australia where he sent 10,000 files containing extremist content between November 2018 and July 2020.

All four major banks have tipped a cash rate increase of twenty-five basis points by the end of the year.

Smart gates at Australia's biggest international airports were on the fritz for more than half a day, leaving the Australian Border Force to manually check the passports of thousands of travelers.

The ABF said the electronic screening gates at Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne International Airports were affected by a technical glitch late on Thursday.

A spokesperson says the issue's now been resolved, but they don't know what caused it.

I would be saying the same thing if this happened in America.

But how did the bail magistrate evaluate that profile and not require the immediate surrender of Nathan's passport, or at least have him do daily in-person reporting at the local police station? So because the court did not seize his passport or issue a departure prohibition order flagging his profile with the Australian Border Force, Nathan's Irish passport remained clean in the automated airport departure systems.

He was legally bound by bail conditions but physically unimpeded.

So following his release, the couple separated, and an apprehended domestic violence order was granted to protect Gail.

Nathan can never return to Australia, and he can never board a flight that transits through Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth.

He can't work aboard a superyacht that docks in Australian waters.

The instant his passport is scanned by the Australian Border Force, biometric facial recognition and passport readers will flag the warrant, leading to his immediate arrest, detention, and remand to the Burwood Court for sentencing.

And he faces this same exact reality in Ireland with his 2025 Dun Laoghaire bench warrant.

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And the freight firms at the center of a major organized crime investigation have been kicked out of Australia's customs system and had their licenses canceled after raids by the Australian Border Force uncovered hundreds of thousands of vapes, illicit cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and a haul of other contraband.

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