wrong Chris.... the smugglers have adopted a new strategy using very fast boats or some of the many illegal Indonesian fishing boats that have proliferated off the WA coast for hundreds of years.
one thing is certain, the7 are no longer using old and slow junk boats. they're delivering passengers to the NW coast and taking the boat back to Indonesia double quick time.
this latest arrival is 15 Chinese. how will Albanese/O'Neill manage asylum seeker claims just when Aussie wine is getting back on the Chinese table?
this is a fraught position; if they accept refugee claims they will offend the Xi Govt. if they refuse and try to send these people back to China the people will be at risk of trial and execution.
