The Department of Home Affairs is investigating reports up to six boats attempted to illegally arrive in Australia. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is in Sri Lanka to deal with the issue.
His visit comes a week after a vessel carrying 20 Sri Lankans was intercepted off Christmas Island. Liberal Senator Jim Molan, the architect of Operation Sovereign Borders, says 'if you weaken border control, you will get a rush of people smuggling boats risking the lives of people on board'. Image: News Corp Australia
there is no war on in SriLanka they are illegals and now wanted here, Australians voted to turn the boats back send them back!
Yep! The boats have stopped 🤔
These boats left expecting a Labor win. To all the dodo's who think thousands wont try it on again under a labor government, take the gold star for complete stupidity. 🤩🤩🤡🥳🥳
barlows_bay not sure what to think about this mate.
Had to take the money over and thank them for coming. It would have been a great advertising campaign if labor had won. No worries he said it was labors fault anyway.
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