Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

I have a very brief question, and I thank you for your indulgence, Madam Deputy Speaker; it is not surprising, given the civil nature of this chamber. My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Given the sharp increase in recent months, since the beginning of this year, in the importation of cocaine as well as chop-chop, or illegal tobacco, how does he think that Customs will be able to meet that challenge and the attempts by organised crime to bring in huge amounts of cocaine—and I am sure he knows the figures for narcotics, or he can ask his advisers—and chop-chop, given the $51.5 million cut to Customs in the budget?

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