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Narco Wars 18/06/2023

Drug cartels are plotting to flood Australia with a wave of super strength ice and a deadly new drug 50 times more powerful than heroin. 

Organised crime gangs ­received payments from a multimillion-dollar state government grant scheme that was designed to support business and the community through the pandemic. 

An Australian fugitive who has evaded authorities for more than a decade has emerged as an international drug kingpin, brokering billion dollar deals from his Mexican hideaway. 

A leading girls college’s staff had their safety put at risk after being forced to direct traffic on one of Adelaide’s busiest roads when police failed to respond to calls for storm help because of an alleged “shift change”. 

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