Meth arrives in Australia through many routes, but it's destroying lives on Papua New Guinea's islands near the Torres Strait
ABCCruising along the shared maritime border between Australia and Papua New Guinea in the Torres Strait, police and customs officers get a call. Detective Sergeant Kally Pamuan from the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary Transnational Crimes Unit said the number of recent methamphetamine busts in the region was "very worrying". "These were two people smuggling drugs from here to Torres Strait Islands or to Australia for guns and for money," Mr Adiba says. "They are born fishermen, but these new things like drugs, they get involved because somebody is coming with money to pay for their accommodation or pay for their transportation," local-level government president Murray Dimai said. Health providers in Australia are also concerned about the harms associated with methamphetamine use, noting that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote areas are at greater risk than non-Indigenous people.
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