It sounded like false news, but it checks out. The Western Australian premier has returned to the manic border laws seen during the plandemic, simply building upon this. Police are stopping and searching anyone entering the state. The claim is that this is to stop drugs coming into the state, even though most drugs such as meth are manufactured in the state, or come in by boat from South East Asia. The explanation I go with was made into a headline by the DailyMail.co.uk: “Insidious way Mark McGowan is taking Western Australia back to Covid by handing cops sweeping new powers: 'Once a dictator, always a dictator'.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11917607/West-Australian-border-Covid-style-police-checkpoints-brought-Premier-Mark-McGowan.html
“Western Australia is desperate to go back to how things were during the coronavirus pandemic as it reintroduces draconian Covid-style police checkpoints under the guise of cracking down on illegal drugs and bikies.
From later this year, visitors to Western Australia by road, air or sea will have to pass through police-manned barricades where vehicles can be searched.
The measures are part of a package of extraordinary powers being handed to police by Premier Mark McGowan under what are being called 'meth buster' laws.
The laws will be in place until at least 2028.
The West Australian government said police requested the move because during the pandemic period, meth use dropped by 51 per cent in Perth, and up to 73 per cent in regional areas.
‘This new law is going to make it tougher than ever for organised crime to bring drugs into Western Australia,' Mr McGowan said.’”
My bet is that this will do nothing to stop meth and other drugs circulating in Western Australia, but is as the above article indicates, everything about power consolidation.