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8 March 2026 marks International Women’s Day. This year’s theme, Give to Gain, highlights the impact of generosity, trust and opportunity. When people and organisations invest time, support and confidence in women, the return is shared. Stronger leadership, stronger teams, and better outcomes for all. To mark International Women’s Day, three women from across Customs share their stories of growth, opportunity and leading with capability. 

Further regulations have been made to give effect to the biosecurity and Customs goods management levies announced in March 2025. The new levy structure will take effect on 1 April 2026. It makes the way MPI and Customs recover costs fairer for levy payers and for taxpayers.

Eight men have been imprisoned in Australia for a combined 95 years and seven months following an international investigation into an organised crime syndicate's failed 2023 plot to traffic more than six tonnes of methamphetamine in bottles of canola oil.