All aboard!! ABF officers have conducted operations 230km from Adelaide in Port Pirie, continuing our targeted patrols of South Australia’s regional coastline 🛥️ Vessel Limestone Coast conducted surveillance and intelligence activities, ensuring the border remains safe from imports of illicit drugs. Australia's 37,000km of coastline features more than 60 international seaports, many of which are in regional and remote regions. Our operations in remote locations are crucial for protecting our bo

The ABF-led Illicit Tobacco Taskforce has crushed the operations of one of Australia’s biggest illicit tobacco criminal syndicates. Following intelligence into a serious crime group, a huge haul of illicit tobacco, cigarettes and vapes have been seized in Queensland by the ABF and the Gold Coast Public Health Unit. The serious organised crime group is part of a network suspected of illegal tobacco importation, distribution, storage, transport and money laundering representing a significant threa

A career with the Australian Border Force is exciting, challenging and rewarding. It can take you anywhere – protecting our borders across air, land and sea within Australia or overseas. We are looking for dedicated, multi-skilled, and responsive individuals to join our next group of recruits. If you believe you have what it takes, apply for our Border Force Officer Recruit Training Program. Applications are open until 29 November 2020 - so kick-start an amazing career with us. To find out more,

We recently visited some of our newest Border Force Office Recruits to hear about their experience joining the ABF. Our entry-level BFORT program is a 12-month training course, both in the classroom and on the job, that prepares you for operational duties across Australia’s border environments. If this sounds like the job for you, applications are currently open for the program in WA and NT. Applications close 26 November 2025 at 11:59pm AEDT (midnight). https://jobs.homeaffairs.gov.au/search/?c