The Home Affairs department revealed it is the sixth boat to have made the journey from Sri Lanka to Australia since May. Border Force reports said there have been just 12 boats from Sri Lanka since Operation Sovereign Borders began in 2013, indicating a fresh surge in arrivals.
Peter Dutton is blaming a bill making it easier for refugees and asylum seekers held in offshore detention and be flown to Australia for medical attention. The government is trying to repeal to bill, and the Senate is expected to make a final vote on the matter next week. Image: News Corp Australia
This is one of those special boats that wasn’t stopped?
Send these country shoppers back!! The Australian taxpayers have already been sued by one mob... We are full!
What happened to the no-comment policy for 'on water operations'? Happy for transparency when it suits?
They want to spend the rest of their lives of in PNG? Good on them.
So the LNP lift the blanket ban on REPORTING boat arrivals to bolster support for their heartless stance on the Biloela family...thinking we don't know that they never stopped!
Not illegal. Don't you know? Or you just want $$$ marketing ?
Tow them back to Sri Lanka.
Tow it back to Sri Lanka.
Weeks ago. That's not 'has been'...
So, LiberalAus party are failing to stop the boats. Is that due to ministerial incompetence?
Station an aircraft carrier and simply fly them back immediately and place a fine on them... payable if they ever enter Australia
Geez. They wouldn’t be Tamil’s fleeing because it’s not safe would they? auspol
Yeah. Nearly a bloody month ago!
Like a gift from god! In the middle of the uproar more boats! Scotty and the Potato say they will pay you later Rupert.
hazardplane6 Tell them to wait a little while. There’s 4 more passengers that will be going back with them at about 2.16pm hometosrilanka hometobilo
Illegal Maritime Arrival to be exact. Already dealt with & has no bearing on anything other than we have some of the better policies in place to curb it which is why other countries have looked into doing the same. Now tighten up entry via plane
How come we didn’t hear about the 3rd, 4th or 5th boat? I’m guessing it’s all about timing propaganda
Remember that bloke who “stopped the boats”? Wonder whatever happened to him...
The boats have never stopped, only reporting on them did, until it became convenient for Dutton to get out a scare campaign.
Send them all back to Sri Lanka with parachutes
The boats have stopped hey? I wish the liberals would pick a lie and just stick with it....
So reporting on ‘on water matters’ is only banned when it isn’t convenient deceitful misleading Coalition government propaganda ...Dutton is a disgusting maggot that is treating Australians like fools...he must think we are all as stupid as the handful of LNP cheerleaders on here
Tow them back
This is what Labor/Greens/left have encouraged - thank God we have Peter Dutton 👍
Keneally welcome in order
No comment on ‘water matters’, unless we want to make political hay that is.
* A MONTH AGO.
Stop using the term illegals that is just plain wrong
But but but. They keep telling us that they stopped the boats. Have The libs been telling us lies. Again.
I thought they stopped the boats. Somehow this is still labor’s fault!
This is fake news.
Illegal immigrants send them back
Shows virtue-signalling by the Left is helping to enable this with advocating for a Sri Lankan Tamil Family who came to Australia illegally by boat. Civil War between the Tamils & Sinhalese ended a decade ago. EU should be copying Australia on this. auspol DeportThemAll
What a coincidence!!. A boat load from Sri Lanka. PeterDutton_MP
How convenient
If they are asylum seekers THEY ARE NOT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!
Albo and KK must be celebrating the success of promoting illegal migration. First boat arrival of convicts is going to jails.
I dont wanna be a wellfare case 4 another country,sometimes Utopia is right under your feet.
So Dutton hasn’t stopped the boats
Fantastic. Great move. Well done. SpudMengler
Is there room for a family of 4? Australia can save some money and include them for the tow back
kkeneally will be there by lunch time to pick them up