A REPORT out today warns that Australia's ability to control its borders is dwindling, with spies, terrorists and human traffickers among the threats. 
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute will release a special report on "securing the Australian frontier" but warns that absolute protection is impossible. Border transactions will push authorities' capabilities "to their limits", the report warns, outlining a range of threats.
"They include such traditional enforcement threats as transnational and organised crime syndicates, people smugglers, human traffickers, espionage agents, illicit drug and firearm importers, terrorists, terror organisations and their supporters," it states.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton will speak at the release of the report, which also warns that Australians themselves can pose a threat.
"With Australians travelling to participate in criminal activities such as terrorism and organised crime, the nation is increasingly becoming a global exporter of serious and organised crime," it states.
"The ability to regulate or control border flows in an absolute sense is declining.
"And hunting for potential threats, risks and harms at the border has become akin to searching for a needle in a perpetually expanding haystack." The warnings come after The Advertiser revealed threats to Australia's national security through Chinese and Russian spies targeting out potential Future Submarines partners.
Japan, Germany and France have all been attacked by hackers trying to get hold of the sensitive information.Independent South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon said yesterday he would call for a Senate inquiry to ensure defence cyber security was thorough enough.