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While trafficking is a crime involving people trafficking, security issues, immigration fraud and human rights abuses, a singular focus on criminal justice outcomes fails to assist many trafficked persons. [35] In Australian Trafficking Visas: 15 recommendations to better protect victims of human trafficking, 15 recommendations were mooted.
Drug trafficking (heroin) 17 April 2005: 15 December 2024: Sentenced to life imprisonment on 14 February 2006. [17] Myuran Sukumaran: Auburn, New South Wales: Drug trafficking (heroin) 17 April 2005: Executed: Sentenced to death on 14 February 2006. Executed by firing squad on 29 April 2015. [17] Renae Lawrence: Newcastle, New South Wales: Drug ...
Maritime drug smuggling into Australia refers to the smuggling of illicit drugs into Australia by sea. While much contemporary Australian media coverage has focused on smaller, more personalised smuggling cases such as the Bali Nine, maritime drug smuggling often allows criminal groups to move illicit drugs and substances into Australia at a much greater scale.
New South Wales v Commonwealth ('Seas and Submerged Lands case) 1975 135 CLR 337 Barwick: 318 Sovereignty over the continental shelf. Murphyores Inc Pty Ltd v Commonwealth: 1976 136 CLR 1 Barwick: 257 prevention of activity within a grant of legislative power Caltex Oil (Australia) Pty Ltd v Dredge "Willemstad" 1976 136 CLR 529 Barwick: 392
Bruno Robert Trimbole (/ t r ɪ m b oʊ l i /) (19 March 1931 – 12 May 1987) was an Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure whose alleged involvement in drug trafficking in Griffith, New South Wales, resulted in a royal commission, a coroner's inquest and an international chase by the Australian government seeking his apprehension after he fled to Europe.
Fisheries crime describes the wide range of criminal activity that is common along the entire value chain of the fishing sector. [1] It often occurs in conjunction with Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), but next to illegal fish extraction include for example corruption, document fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, kidnapping, human trafficking and drug trafficking. [1]
Australia's first civilian crime prevention force was established in August 1789, comprising a twelve-man nightwatch authorised to patrol the settlement at Sydney Cove and with powers "for the apprehending and securing for examination" anyone suspected of "felony, trespass or misdemeanour." [7]
The captain and crew of the Pong Su were charged with narcotics trafficking. Most significantly, an official of the governing Korean Workers' Party was found on board, linking the drug shipment to Kim Jong-il's government. According to Australian media reports, he had served as senior envoy in North Korea's embassy in