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Australia has established one of the strongest regulatory regimes for tobacco in the world as a result of significant reforms to the Customs Act 1901...

Date Time Jail for serial fraudster migration agent A 38-year-old Perth woman has been jailed for six-and-a-half years after being convicted of multiple charges relating to extensive migration fraud from which she obtained more than $300,000 from her unsuspecting clients. A joint investigation by the Australian Border Force (ABF) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), with support from the Australian Federal Police (AFP), revealed the Chinese national masqueraded as a registere...

By Raquel Mustillo A COUNCIL meeting called to address code of conduct issues within Grant District Council was partly in response to claims staff members were “harassed” and in some cases “bullied, disrespected and unsupported” in interactions with mayor Richard Sage. The recording, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveals a number of allegations relating to Mr Sage’s behaviour towards council staff, including “abusing” former chief executive officer David Singe an...

The two masterminds behind an attempt to smuggle a record-breaking 9.5 million cigarettes into Western Australia from Vietnam have been sentenced to...

AUDIO RELEASED: The States Ombudsman has ordered the released of a audio recording from a tense council meeting called amid ongoing concerns linked to behavioural breaches and the relationship between Grant District mayor Richard Safe and then chief executive officer David Singe. By Raquel Mustillo 

GRANT District Council has lost a 19-month battle to keep an audio recording of a controversial council meeting secret after the state’s ombudsman rejected an argument that the release of the...

LOCAL CATCH UP: Mount Gambier resident Rhonda Foster receives a copy of The Border Watch from Fosters Newsagency owner Rhonda Foster. THE Border Watch will publish its final edition of 2020 on December 24, hitting newsstands and its online platform 24 hours earlier due to Christmas Day. The 72-page edition, filled with the latest news, sport and community issues – as well as the usual 20-page Real Estate Guide – will be the last until January 8. Despite a break in publication, The Border Wa...

Date Time ABF targets Perth illegal worker syndicate Australian Border Force (ABF) officers have detained five Malaysian nationals suspected of being part of a syndicate responsible for widespread exploitation of foreign workers in Perth’s construction industry. Three of the men, aged 50, 51 and 64, were detained after ABF Field Operations officers executed a search warrant on an Embleton residence on Thursday, 17 December 2020. A 52-year-old man was detained after a search warrant was execut...

By Raquel Mustillo LIMESTONE Coast councils have discussed hundreds of items behind closed doors in the last financial year, with figures revealing staff and elected members met in private 210 times during 2019/20. An investigation by The Border Watch has shown the region’s seven councils have collectively invoked confidentiality provisions more times in the 2019/20 period than in the previous five years. State legislation allows councils to have secret debates for commercially sensitive rea...

READY TO ROCK: Mount Gambier band Higgs Field will debut at Saturday nights inaugural Local and Live event at Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre. THE Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre will be rocking this Saturday night as punk band Chelsea Manor and progressive rock group Higgs Field take to the stage. Headlining as part of the venue’s inaugural Local and Live program, the doors will swing open to crowds at 7pm. The Border Watch has partnered with Country Arts SA to present the event, which aims to bring...

Freedom caucus. we continue our hannity watchity government watch shutdown watch, and of course, border watch and congressional watch. were joined by news senator, marsha blackburn. congratulations. you won by a big margin in the end. there were poll that is had your race close. you ran away with t. were very happy we supported your candidacy. >> thank you. >> where is the senate on this where a lot of the insanity in the house, of nancy pelosi and some of these more radical members, is not goin...