First Aired: October 13rd, 2004
Status: Continuing
Genre: Documentary
Network: Seven Network
Summary: Border Security: Australia's Front Line is an Australian television program that airs on the Seven Network. The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as they enforce Australian customs, quarantine, immigration and finance laws.
Most of the programme is filmed at Sydney and Melbourne airports. Occasionally, the program features other locations such as Brisbane Airport, Perth Airport, seaports, international mail centres, raids on workplaces suspected of employing persons contrary to the restrictions of their visa or immigrant status and the work of Customs vessels and aircraft in the waters of Northern Australia.
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Season 6
Episode 1: Episode 1
Air Date: February 11st, 2008
Summary: Customs are faced with a challenge when they try to find out what a passenger with some unusual travel movements is concealing. Immigration officers try to find out the truth from workers who have a lot to hide during a factory compliance raid in Western Sydney. Two Canadian passengers wanting to have some fun and indulge in a little partying struggle to make it through Quarantine.
Episode 2: Episode 2
Air Date: February 18th, 2008
Summary: An angry Hong Kong banker tries to tell Customs officers how to do their job. The mother of a New Zealand passenger hoping to attend a family reunion makes a passionate plea to Immigration officers. Customs find some new methods of concealing drugs when they search some parcels from India.
Episode 3: Episode 3
Air Date: February 25th, 2008
Summary: Customs go on the hunt for drugs on two suspicious passengers from different flights from Vietnam. Immigration interview a British passenger who has declared a criminal record, while his girlfriend waits at the airport. Quarantine staff find an act of shocking cruelty in a parcel from China.
Episode 4: Episode 4
Air Date: March 3rd, 2008
Summary: A joint effort between the Navy, Department of Fisheries and Customs intercepts an illegal fishing boat operating in the Arafura Sea, north of Darwin. Customs try to find out why a passenger from Japan is very nervous. Customs staff find an incredible concealment in a package.
Episode 5: Episode 5
Air Date: March 10th, 2008
Summary: In Sydney, a random bag search of two passengers returning to Australia turns nasty. Customs fight to stop a multi-million dollar black market trade in sharks off the north-western coast of Australia. Quarantine discover a dangerous threat in the luggage of some passengers from Lebanon.
Episode 6: Episode 6
Air Date: March 17th, 2008
Summary: When Customs find traces of narcotics on an American passenger's surfboard, the passenger pops some pills, becomes abusive and collapses. A stash of food in the bags of some Indonesian passengers holds a surprise for Customs. Customs officers find that 50 jars of pills in a package from India are not the natural remedies claimed on the jars.
Episode 7: Episode 7
Air Date: March 24th, 2008
Summary: When a British passenger makes an astonishing admission, Customs officers become very interested in him. A hunt for a Chinese woman suspected of being in Australia illegally sparks an angry showdown with Immigration. A passenger returning from Iran is stopped at the border.
Episode 8: Episode 8
Air Date: March 31st, 2008
Summary: A New Zealand passenger is not happy that he is separated from his wife and children after Immigration discover that he has a criminal history. An incredible situation in Customs could put a Vietnamese passenger's life in danger. Immigration compliance officers work with police and the Department of Transport in a crackdown targetting illegal taxi drivers in Sydney's southern suburbs.
Episode 10: Episode 10
Air Date: September 22nd, 2008
Summary: Immigration face a huge security concern with a German passenger. Two funny looking Vietnamese passengers carry something that is deadly serious. The discovery of two packages from South Africa triggers a raid on a black market smuggling ring.
Episode 11: Strong scent/Invisible couriers/Immigration mystery
Air Date: April 21st, 2008
Summary: Customs detector dogs have picked up a strong scent; now officers are searching for answers. The invisible couriers; is the start of a very disturbing trend to get drugs across the border? And immigration officers go out of their way to uncover a mystery.
Episode 12: Stashing in undies/Mystery friend/Expensive amplifier
Air Date: April 28th, 2008
Summary: Customs catch this man stashing something in his undies. He claims a mystery friend will fund his trip, but officers are not convinced. And a discovery in customs makes this the world most expensive amplifier.
Episode 14: Episode 14
Air Date: May 12nd, 2008
Summary: Customs has suspicions about this backpacker, he'll need to answer some tough questions. Tempers are fraid in quarantine as an epic standoff drags on for hours. And this passenger says he's on a gambling holiday, but officers need to know the real reason he's here.
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