Great work by a govt thats protecting our borders and doing waht they said that they would do.
Friday, 28 March 2014
Operation Sovereign Borders is continuing to prevent illegal boat arrivals, with no successful people smuggling ventures to Australia for 99 days, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection the Hon. Scott Morrison said today.
The government's strong border protection policies, particularly maritime operations, are working to frustrate people smugglers and prevent deaths at sea. (unlike the failed labor/green policy)
Over the same 99 day period in 2012/13 – 20 December 2012 to 28 March 2013 – there were 66 illegal boat arrivals with a total of 3879 people on board. (labor/green open border failure at its finest)
99 days without a successful people smuggling venture to Australia is more than the combined total of successive days without boats under Labor's four Immigration ministers following Kevin Rudd's abolition of John Howard's border measures in 2008 (Chris Evans – 61 days, Chris Bowen – 23 days, Brendan O'Connor – 6 days, Tony Burke – 6 days).
Key contributors to the government's successes to date under Operation Sovereign Borders – maritime operations and the denial of permanent visas for illegal boat arrivals – have been refused support by the Labor Party.
Labor remains wedded to border protection policy failure and their partners in that failure, the Greens.
The government will be maintaining its tempo of operations against people smugglers, ensuring that our agencies respond effectively to deny anyone the opportunity of arriving illegally in Australia by boat.
