Just had a horror of a disembarkation at Brisbane International Cruise Terminal from a cruise from Papua New Guinea.
Including us, I could see five groups of passengers out of 3000 passengers who were subjected to full luggage search by Australian Border Force’s, with their cameras and phones taken away along with their passports.
We were all made to wait at least 3hrs to be processed, we received all our cameras and phones back and then allowed to go.
One person was in tears as they had missed all their connections home.
While waiting we watched the remaining 2000 odd passengers pass though customs without any bag checks only their wood carvings or weaving where checked.
I can only surmise that we were used as training fodder as the officers that processed us seemed to have had little experience. They were watched by other officers as they did the search.