Australian Border Force (ABF) will begin operating in July next year and will act as the nation's single frontline enforcement agency.

The combined mega-agency follows one of the recommendations in the Commission of Audit.

ABF will be led by a commissioner who will be the nation's "most senior border law enforcement officer" and will focus on border operations.

The commissioner will have the same standing as other security heads including the AFP Commissioner, Chief of the Defence Force and Director General of spy agency ASIO.

You can read more here.

This announcement has had its fair share of critics according to Sydney Morning Herald's report; 

Australian National University marketing expert Andrew Hughes said the choice of the ''hairy-chested'' title Australian Border Force sounded like a parody or a cartoon series.

''If I was going to create a cartoon series I would probably call it Australia's Border Protection Force,'' he said.

''The catchphrase would be, 'The ABF - We're here to help', and the characters would have their own matching capes and masks.''

You can also read a report on SBS regarding the Customs being replaced by ABF here.

This news has also sparked job cut fears according to The Australian; 

Mr Morrison's plans come as Joe Hockey separately revealed in The Australian that he would slash more than 200 spending programs in the budget, closing agencies and retrenching staff.

The job shedding would begin with the loss of 3000 positions at the Australian Taxation Office.

Opposition assistant Treasury spokesman Andrew Leigh said slashing the public service was "daft policy for the long run''. "No one who's really worked with public servants thinks there's fat to be cut in the public service. Australia has a high quality, lean public service,'' Mr Leigh said.

You can read more here.

Its going to be interesting to see how this pans out as well as what other surprises the budget has in store for us. Stay tuned for more once the 2014 budget is announced this evening.