House debates Bills
Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2013-2014; Consideration in Detail
Jason Clare Blaxland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs
6:58 pm
The statistics speak for themselves. If you ask any law enforcement officer what is the key to seizing things at the border or seizing them on the street, they will tell you it is criminal intelligence, invest in criminal intelligence. That is why in addition to the other measures in the budget we are funding a $30-million national intelligence targeting centre that has been suggested by Customs and Border Protection and other agencies to fuse together all of the intelligence necessary to make sure that we identify and seize illicit goods attempted to be imported into the country.
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