Smugglers could ‘rapidly’ change tactics and undo migrant crackdown gains, warns new border chief

CRIMINAL gangs could rapidly change tactics and wipe out progress on cutting small boat crossings, the Government has admitted. Crossings are down 43 per cent year on year because of a crackdown on dinghies reaching beaches and increased enforcement on smugglers running the routes. But the new Border Security Commander Duncan Capps, a former Army...