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Australia finds record meth, cocaine, heroin use in wastewater analysis

Australians consumed drugs with a street value of about $7.5bn, representing a 34 percent rise in annual consumption.

Al Jazeera

Secret surveillance powers probe targets privacy fears

Law enforcement is defending powers to take over online accounts and disrupt data despite privacy concerns, saying it helps tackle criminals.

AAP

Test Parliament's wastewater to check drug use there, says leading doctor

New study shows Canberra has high opioid use - so where's it coming from?

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Australians’ appetite for ketamine hits record high as alcohol consumption drops

Wastewater monitoring reveals cannabis is most widely used illegal drug, with use in regional areas double that in cities

The Guardian - AU

'Organised criminal networks': drug war continues as ice, cocaine use spike

Offences for dealing amphetamines soar in Lake Macquarie.

Newcastle Herald

Cocaine spike emerges in latest ACT waste test

Rising cocaine use has prompted roadside testing from January 1.

The Canberra Times

Criminals tipped off after law enforcement staff shared photo of intercepted shipping container on WhatsApp

The 2020 blunder, whereby more than 400 Australian public servants received the photo, revealed in annual report of former corruption watchdog

The Guardian - AU

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Labor and Coalition team up to retrospectively authorise ‘unlawful’ use of material gathered by Australian agency

Bill authorises previous uses of coercive powers, removing legal question mark that had dogged Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

The Guardian - AU

Ketamine use hits record peak in Australia as methamphetamine and cocaine rise

Wastewater monitoring report shows consumption of heroin, MDMA and fentanyl has fallen while increasing for alcohol and oxycodone

The Guardian - AU

Cannabis usage climbs since its decriminalisation: police

Crime authorities reveal latest wastewater report.

The Canberra Times

Record levels of illicit tobacco seized amid series of firebombing attacks in Melbourne

Australia’s illegal tobacco trade appears as lucrative as ever, but record levels of stock might signal a glut in the market

The Guardian - AU

Home Affairs experimenting with ChatGPT in refugee and cyber divisions

Home Affairs says it has allowed supervised experimentation with ChatGPT in some of its divisions, including its refugee and cyber teams, as the department boss awaits broader direction from government.

ABC News

Mexican and South American cartels penetrating Australian border security to import tonnes of cocaine, underworld figure tells Four Corners

Cartels threaten and bribe border workers to help them bring in cocaine, a bikie and former airport worker says.

ABC News

Australia spends billions ‘failing to police’ cannabis that earns black market $25bn a year, Greens say

David Shoebridge says legalising the drug would bring in $28bn in tax revenue in first decade

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Two Taiwanese men arrested over alleged plans to bring millions worth of meth into Australia

Police allege the two men were senior members of a transnational crime syndicate, who if convicted could face life in prison.

The Guardian - AU

Victorians’ Covid contact tracing data sent for potential use by data mining platform

Exclusive: Australian data security experts described the July 2020 move involving controversial Palantir platform as ‘dubious’ and ‘outrageous’

ABC News

Australian Crime Intelligence Commission releases latest findings from wastewater drug monitoring program

Methylamphetamine consumption has risen across Australia while the use of other drugs has dropped, according to the latest results from national wastewater analysis.

The Guardian - AU

Lidia Thorpe says she is ‘not going anywhere’ as Senate investigates relationship with ex-bikie

Greens senator insists information received during time on parliamentary law enforcement committee ‘was treated in confidence’

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Border smugglers on crime agency's radar

Australian crime agencies are targeting drug smuggling syndicates who use security ID cards to bypass border security.

The Guardian - AU

Lidia Thorpe’s relationship with ex-bikie should have been declared to law enforcement committee, Labor says

Parliamentary committee has processes to declare any potential conflicts of interest, then deputy chair Anne Aly says

ABC News

Police feared investigation into 'black flight' drug syndicate would be exposed too soon, court hears

A court has heard surveillance devices were used to monitor members of an alleged syndicate police believed were planning to import drugs from PNG, but they thought their investigation would be revealed following a drug bust in Melbourne.

ABC News

Australia ranks the highest among more than 20 countries for meth use

Australia is at the top of a list of methylamphetamine use among more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Oceania, a wastewater analysis finds.

ABC News

Crime groups using illicit tobacco to finance drug trade and terrorism as cigarette prices soar, says Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission

The soaring cost of cigarettes in Australia is presenting lucrative opportunities for organised crime groups, who are turning to illicit tobacco as a "low-risk and high-reward" trade.

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