Australia’s latest national wastewater monitoring report confirms what many in law enforcement already know: methamphetamine consumption is soaring, hitting record highs nationwide. To combat the drug trade, Australia should reconsider whom to work with inside Myanmar, and it should engage more with Southeast Asian countries. The post-coup surge in methamphetamine production in Shan State has created a transnational drug crisis that now directly undermines Australia’s security. Methamphetamine consumption rose to 12,815 kilograms in 2023–24, up 21 percent on the previous year and an unprecedented record. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has documented how the Golden Triangle—the remote jungle-covered borderlands of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand—has become the epicentre of synthetic drug production.