International disputes

International disputes include:
territorial claim in Antarctica (Australian Antarctic Territory)
dispute of exact form and revenue distribution of the natural gas fields between the island of East Timor and Australia.
Tampa affair, which is named after the MV Tampa, a Norwegian cargo ship which was at the center of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway and Indonesia off the coast of Christmas Island in August 2001.

Illicit drugs

Several very large drug caches worth many millions of dollars have been intercepted in coastal ambushes of drug shipping. Tasmania is in fact, one of the world’s suppliers of legal hemp products. The government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate.