EARLIER this year I met a former senior Customs official who devoted much of his working life ensuring our borders, particularly our major airports and sea ports, were properly policed and secure. He retired some years back but had kept an active interest in the Customs service, and what he told me about the decline in security at our major border checkpoints left me reeling. The meeting coincided with the conclusion of a police operation into the illegal importation of 300 Glock pistols from Austria into Australia via Customs and Australia Post. Of the 300 Glocks allegedly imported, only seven to my knowledge have been recovered. There remains some 293 still out on the streets of Australia,...
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