Imagine how many people have already gotten away with jumping the border by boat.

Imagine how many people have already gotten away with jumping the border by boat.

With modern surveillance , my guess is not many.
Probably easier to monitor the Southport Seaway than a backroad in Goondawindi

gary

garymalmgren said..
Imagine how many people have already gotten away with jumping the border by boat.

With modern surveillance , my guess is not many.
Probably easier to monitor the Southport Seaway than a backroad in Goondawindi

gary

As EC31 said the smart ones arent coming in the seaway. Theres plenty of places not that much further north they could come into. Pin bar, south passage, brisbane via cape moreton, mooloolaba. Hopefully no one gets any ideas after reading this though.

The smart ones are not pulling into Southport.

That's true , but they have to sail past Southport.
I think there is a co-ordinated effort to monitor and stop border crossings and the V.M.R at Southport will have their eyes and ears open
(as they always do!).

I would go behind the horizon. And hope.
Commercial ships wouldn't care less.

The issue of being able to prove how long you have been in QLD is the deciding factor, ie receipts from marinas, bank transactions etc and they are checking ! Let's face it they've been keeping an eye on drug and people smuggling for a while now so it wouldn't be hard to check boat rego then go and ask for proof of how long you've been in the state mate, please explain why your last bank transaction was in Ballina 3 days ago ?
If you weren't there before covid you needed a boarder pass to cross the boarder even when it was open, and there's a record of that. So you see that the powers that be aren't as easily fool as we might think

Na Australian rego is another thing altogether it allows the vessel to visit other countries without being exported from one county then imported to the next. You still have to have state rego. And if you where coming in from overseas well the officials are allways there anyway