Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

What I can tell the Senate is that the Albanese government takes the border measures relating to the trafficking of illegal drugs extremely seriously, and I commend our Australian Border Force officers and the AFP for their hard work in ensuring that we keep as many of these substances out of Australia as possible. In fact, there has been an increased effort from the Australian Border Force on these matters. For the 2022-23 financial year, the ABF made 4,296 detections of cocaine at the border, with an estimated total weight of 4,769 kilograms. This represents—