G'day about bloody time these most important agencies became united
Cheers
hako said
11:10 PM Jul 2, 2015
Yup - now the PM has God on our side : "I congratulate Commissioner Quaedvlieg and all the personnel being sworn in today as the founders of the Australian Border Force," Mr Abbott said.
"May God bless you, may God bless your work, may God bless the country you are helping to protect and prosper."
Baz421 said
11:41 PM Jul 2, 2015
Good move IMHO, streamline the command structure BUT I saw a lot of "heavies with braid on caps" on TV News. I hope they have enough "Indians"!!!!!!
Weevil said
08:01 AM Jul 3, 2015
The WA Police changed their name from WA Police Force to WA Police Service some years back, the WA government reckoned the word "Force" sounded too aggressive so changed it to "Service", now it's just Western Australian Police.......go figure....
-- Edited by Weevil on Friday 3rd of July 2015 08:06:23 AM
littledick said
09:41 AM Jul 6, 2015
Can't see them stopping the Chinese coming in the front door and buying our farms for their own purpose.
Dick.
Wombat 280 said
07:19 PM Jul 9, 2015
ballast2 wrote:
G'day about bloody time these most important agencies became united
Cheers
Add Quarantine to that and give the Coastal surveillance back to the ADF and not some O/S contractor who flies a scheduled service up and down the coast like a joy flight , its so routine trawler captains set their watch by the fly over. Boarder protection is a laugh in the North West there are small settlements of INDO fishermen camped up the inlets complete with chooks ,pigs, dogs and whole families , just to big to do from the air needs boots on the ground to track them down once spotted from the air .
See; http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-01/border-force-commissioner-operational-matters-roman-quaedvlieg/6586274
G'day about bloody time these most important agencies became united
Cheers
Yup - now the PM has God on our side :

"I congratulate Commissioner Quaedvlieg and all the personnel being sworn in today as the founders of the Australian Border Force," Mr Abbott said.
"May God bless you, may God bless your work, may God bless the country you are helping to protect and prosper."
Good move IMHO, streamline the command structure BUT I saw a lot of "heavies with braid on caps" on TV News. I hope they have enough "Indians"!!!!!!
The WA Police changed their name from WA Police Force to WA Police Service some years back, the WA government reckoned the word "Force" sounded too aggressive so changed it to "Service", now it's just Western Australian Police.......go figure....
-- Edited by Weevil on Friday 3rd of July 2015 08:06:23 AM
Can't see them stopping the Chinese coming in the front door and buying our farms for their own purpose.
Dick.
Add Quarantine to that and give the Coastal surveillance back to the ADF and not some O/S contractor who flies a scheduled service up and down the coast like a joy flight , its so routine trawler captains set their watch by the fly over. Boarder protection is a laugh in the North West there are small settlements of INDO fishermen camped up the inlets complete with chooks ,pigs, dogs and whole families , just to big to do from the air needs boots on the ground to track them down once spotted from the air .