Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question. Last week I had the great honour of visiting some of our law enforcement agencies, along with the commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, Reece Kershaw. We congratulated them on the closure of quite a remarkable job that they had been involved in for a period of about 10 months. It meant they'd had contact with their international counterparts, so we had also representatives from the Dutch police force there because together—our law enforcement and intelligence agencies working with their international counterparts—they had been able to disrupt a criminal syndicate that had planned to import into our country 850 kilograms of crystalline MDMA and 548 litres of MDMA oil. It had an estimated street value of $302 million and the quantity of drugs had the potential to be processed into 15 million tablets.

We know that some of those tablets were destined for schoolies on the Gold Coast and in other destinations around the country, and that, because of this disruption, those drugs were taken from our streets. Mr Speaker, I can tell you, as the parent of a teenager who just came back from schoolies, that I had some hair before schoolies started but no hair by the end of it! But she got back safely. I am misleading the House a little there; I'm sorry! But, nonetheless, it's a lot of stress for parents.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

That comb-over works for you, Albo, that's all I'll say! I've accepted my fate—the comb-over works for you!

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