New South Wales police raided a camouflaged plantation in isolated woodland near Dubbo and seized more than 30,000 cannabis plants, which police valued at about $50 million, for destruction in a day-long harvest.[1] Officers arrested twelve people shortly after 6am, among them sentries, crop keepers and three alleged ringleaders.[1]

The drug squad commander said most of the plants were at their most valuable growth stage and that the growers had put in pumps and tanks and gone to an enormous amount of work.[1] Up to 200 officers spent the afternoon hauling metre-high plants from the ground before poisoning them and piling them up for burning over the weekend, once an exemption from the local total fire ban was granted.[1]