ABF

When your office is the Indo-Pacific, strategy, collaboration and partnership are critical for the security of the region.

Last week, the Australian Border Force hosted the Working Level Meeting for the 2025 Heads of Asian Coast Guards Meeting (HACGAM) in Sydney.

HACGAM is a high-profile and prestigious international forum for maritime security agencies in the Indo-Pacific region to engage and work closely together to address a rapidly changing maritime landscape, as well as emerging trends and threats.

It also provides an opportunity for nations to work together to identify solutions to maritime challenges so that countries can develop coordinated responses and be better positioned to address the identified issues in the Asian region in a range of areas including:
🚢 Maritime terrorism
🚢 Piracy
🚢 Armed robbery at sea
🚢 People smuggling
🚢 Transnational crime
🚢 Disaster prevention

HACGAM allows for collaboration, co-design and co-investment in initiatives to secure maritime waters across the Indo-Pacific region.

The ABF’s hosting of HACGAM shows its commitment in fostering regional dialogue and practical cooperation to address civil maritime and security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. This year's HACGAM coincides with the 10th anniversary of Australia being admitted to HACGAM as a member nation, and the first time Australia has hosted the event.

HACGAM is just one part of the ABF’s broader long-term, consistent and collaborative program of engagement with its civil maritime security agency counterparts.

For more information about this year’s meeting, visit: abf.gov.au/hacgam2025.

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The Australian Border Force is working with @nswpolice to locate an immigration detainee involved in an incident last night.

ABF can confirm the detainee was in transit at the time. The two individuals assisting were treated at the scene for minor injuries and taken to hospital as a precaution.

If you see the individual, please do not approach them and contact either Granville Police or call Triple Zero (000).

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The Australian Border Force has been working to restore a technical outage impacting both inbound and outbound passengers at international airports nationwide this morning (Friday 8 November 2024).

As of midday AEDT, the issue has been resolved at all airports and all systems are back online.

The cause of the technical issue remains under investigation.

We wish to thank travellers for their patience during this incident.

The Australian Border Force is aware of a technical outage impacting SmartGate kiosks for outbound and inbound passengers at international airports nationwide today (Friday 8 November 2024).

Additional ABF officers are being surged into work areas to manually process passengers and provide as minimal disruption as possible.

The issue is currently being rectified and systems are slowly returning online. We appreciate traveller’s patience as we continue to work through the issue.