Tag: Operation Sovereign Borders

Indonesia has warned Australia over a series of breaches of its territorial waters and demanded the government stop turning boats back.

A boat bound for Australia, carrying 120 asylum seekers sinks off the coast of Indonesia, leaving 20 dead, mostly children.

For only the second time in the past six years, the Australian Navy intercepted a boat and handed the asylum seekers back to Indonesia.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his government's policy to turn back asylum seeker boats to Indonesia will respect the country's sovereignty.

The Abbott government insists it will honour its election promise to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat despite Indonesian opposition to its controversial plan to turn back vessels.

A strategy to stop asylum seeker boat arrivals is at the top of Tony Abbott’s to-do list for next week after his ministry is sworn in.