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The manufacturing machine seized in Sydney’s north-west can produce over 3.5 million cigarettes every day.

Machine capable of making 3.5 million cigarettes a day seized in Sydney tobacco bust

A criminal operation with the potential to produce millions of cigarettes daily has been thwarted in a raid that also netted 7.5 kilograms of loose-leaf tobacco.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo

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The two men were arrested at Sydney Airport on Thursday.

Two men arrested at Sydney Airport with $750,000 worth of cocaine: police allege

Officers swooped on two men from Europe when they landed in Sydney. They had allegedly swallowed more than 200 small packets of cocaine.

  • David Barwell
The seizure of more than a million cigarettes and 9000 vapes this week by Border Force.

Illegal tobacco boom linked to Queensland bikie group

The revelation follows the seizure of more than a million cigarettes and 9000 vapes from storage sheds on the Gold Coast this week.

  • William Davis
Dundas Valley tobacco raid

Police swoop on alleged $150m Sydney tobacco syndicate

Investigators raided more than a dozen homes and storage units across Sydney, seizing illegal cigarettes and cash.

  • Riley Walter and Perry Duffin
The SmartGate system has caused airport queues in Sydney and Melbourne.

What could fix airports’ long arrival queues? A race for the Olympics

Passengers arriving after 14-hour-flights must often wait 40 minutes in queues to scan their passports in kiosks before exiting the airport.

  • Chris Zappone
n Australian Border Force boat leaves Broome on Wednesday evening carrying crayfishing boats purchased under a policy which sees them provided to illegal fishers and people smugglers before they are turned back in Australian waters.

Exclusive footage reveals boats at the centre of secretive Australian Border Force scheme

The footage, captured by a 9News Perth drone, shows the Australian Border Force’s 110-metre Ocean Shield leaving Broome Port carrying the four fishing boats.

  • Hamish Hastie and Rachael Clifford
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A Lalor Park man, identified in court documents as Neil Gardoll, was charged by ABF and AFP after a child sex doll was found in a shipment in Sydney.

Sydney man charged for child sex doll, AI-generated abuse material

A Sydney man has been charged after authorities allegedly detected a child-like doll in a shipment from Asia.

  • Perry Duffin
Detective Inspector Graham Banks.

Two arrests, millions seized: How the tobacco wars played out in a Melbourne takeaway shop

Police say a tip-off about cash drops at a Somerton shop uncovered an $83 million money laundering operation with links to tobacco kingpin Kaz Hamad.

  • Cassandra Morgan
A woman was allegedly found with $2m cash in the boot of her car.

The woman with $2m cash in her boot and the violent trade as ‘lucrative as drugs’

Sydney’s criminal gangs have long been keen to meet the city’s ravenous appetite for drugs. They’re now cashing in on an even larger market.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
The scene in Footscray Mall on Sunday after a man was seriously assaulted.

Former Age photographer dies after Footscray assault

Dominic O’Brien, 62, died after suffering critical injuries during an altercation in Melbourne’s inner west last Sunday.

  • Ashleigh McMillan and Hannah Hammoud