BBCNEWS Newsday June 4, 2024 23:19:00
Of people trying to reach australia by boat, but carries with it obvious concerns. indeed, madeline. you point out that the strategy failed, but specifically, the aim of ensuring that not more refugees would come to australia's shores, was there any improvement in those figures? in fact, the situation went backwards. in the first year of offshore processing, more than 24,000 people arrived in australia by boat. to put that number in context in the previous year, the number of people arriving by boat in australia was in the hundreds or at its peak. perhaps five or 6000. that lead to 24,000 or m...