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Really ?
“Suspected Illegal Entry Vessels (SIEVs) from Australian waters was introduced by the Howard Government (from 2001–2003) and reintroduced by the Abbott Government (in December 2013). It updates boat ‘turnback’ data provided in a previous publication from November 2017, to provide information on boat turnbacks through to 30 June 2018.
In the months prior to the reintroduction of the Abbott Government’s boat ‘turnback’ policy, unauthorised maritime arrivals (who arrived on board boats between 19 July 2013 and December 2013) were transferred to regional processing centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG). “
A success story of the Conservative govt unlike this
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/24/australia-to-move-last-refugee-from-offshore-processing-on-nauru-but-its-cruelty-and-cost-is-not-over#:~:text=Within%20three%20months%2C%20Australia's%20offshore,sea'%2C”%20Gleeson%20says.
“Coalition nearly won power in 2010 on the back of the simplistic promise it would “Stop the Boats”, then did so three years later.”
“Offshore processing was just one of the reforms an expert panel encouraged the then Gillard government to enact in 2012, including greater cooperation with Indonesia and Malaysia and boosting Australia’s humanitarian intake.
While the offshore component was swiftly put into place, the rest never followed. Cooperation with south-east Asian neighbours faltered and Australia’s humanitarian intake, instead of increasing, has fallen in the decade since.”
“The Rudd government’s dismantling of the Howard government’s successful border protection policies directly resulted in more than 51,000 illegal maritime arrivals, including more than 8400 children, while it has been estimated that at least 1200 people (including hundreds of children) perished at sea”
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