Derwin Elise News Today

Shadow frontbencher Barnaby Joyce has sounded the alarm over an undetected Indonesian boat carrying 12 people arriving in "crocodile infested" waters off the coast of Western Australia on Thursday.

The former Morrison government leaked information about the interception of a suspected asylum seeker boat on election day, according to a Department of Home Affairs report.

Former home affairs minister Karen Andrews has insisted Labor must keep temporary protection visas as a "massive signal" to deter people smugglers and asylum seekers.

The Sri Lankan Navy has conceded it would not be able to stop all asylum seeker vessels from leaving its country, which is going through an economic and humanitarian crisis.

Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan has urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to visit Sri Lanka to address the humanitarian crisis in the country in hopes of reducing the number of asylum seekers making the dangerous journey to Australia.

A third asylum seeker boat has been intercepted near Australian waters in the three weeks since the Federal Election.

A second asylum seeker boat intercepted near Australian waters in almost three weeks left Sri Lanka on the day the Labor Party won the Federal Election, it can be revealed.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has unveiled about his governments plan to "speak about competition without catastrophe" but at the same time, recognising the rising strategic threat of China in the Pacific Islands region.