In the most recent fiscal year until the end of May,the ABF has seized 512 million cigarettes,a 36 per cent increase from the same period the previous year.
The average Australian should be confused about Australia’s policy in calling out countries behind malicious cyber attacks.
Australia and other countries - including the United States and all NATO members - have accused China’s Ministry of State Security of carrying out cyber attacks itself as well as paying for criminal large-scale hacks.
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says Katie Hopkins will be leaving Australia as soon as the government can possibly arrange it. “I’m hopeful that it will happen imminently.”
Government research shows cyber crime is costing the Australian economy about $3.5 billion every year.
Queensland senator Amanda Stoker has thrown her support behind Henry Pike in the race to replace outgoing Liberal-National MP Andrew Laming for the seat of Bowman.
Liberal Senator James Paterson said Australia’s position to only list one arm of Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation was “increasingly isolated internationally”.
Tharnicaa Murugappan will likely remain in Perth hospital for at least another week while she recovers.
A former High Court chief justice has slammed the “deliberate cruelty” inflicted on the children of a Tamil family detained on Christmas Island.
The Morrison government’s messaging on the plight of this family has been confused,but it still can act humanely.
The images of Tharnicaa on a hospital bed are ones that no one can or should look away from. But what is happening to Tharnicca is not an aberration but the intended outcome of our cruel approach to people seeking asylum.