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Prime minister defends border security amid political stoush over boat arrivals, missing man found in WA

Western Australian Police officers have located a man who has been missing since Friday in the state's far north, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fends off renewed criticism over the country's border security measures.

Police said the man was part of a group that arrived in   Australia via an "unknown vessel".

It was not known how or why the man became separated from the group, but he has been found to be in relatively good condition.

WA Police Armadale Superintendent Mark Longman said the man was found on a track not far from the Truscott Airbase.

"The man has been confirmed as being the same male who was missing from the vessel that landed on the Kimberley coast on Friday,” he said. 

“He’s extremely lucky to have been located in these circumstances alive and well.

"Our part ends on having located him and getting him to medical attention and then it'll be up to other agencies as to where he goes to now."

The man, who Superintendent Longman said was "described as Chinese and aged in his 40s", was receiving medical treatment from a doctor at the Truscott Airbase on Sunday afternoon.

It's believed he had been separated from the group in the vicinity of the Mitchell Plateau.

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Earlier in the day a Nauru Airlines flight, believed to be carrying passengers from the group of boat arrivals, landed at RAAF Base Amberley in Queensland, before departing for Nauru.

It travelled to Queensland from RAAF Base Curtin in WA's Kimberley, according to an online flight tracking site.

The recent development is the third known arrival on WA's coast in five months.

In November 2023, a group of 12 people landed in the same area after travelling from Indonesia via boat.

Earlier this year in February, 39 foreign nationals were discovered in three different locations near Beagle Bay in WA's north.

Prime minister defends border security

Speaking in Melbourne, Mr Albanese defended the government's approach to border security in the face of criticism from the opposition. 

"We will deal with any unauthorised arrivals consistent with Operation Sovereign Borders, and that's what we've done," he said.

"There's been no change in policy since 2013. We'll use all avenues at our disposal to make sure that the borders are protected and make sure we respond in accordance with the principles of Operation Sovereign Borders, and that's what we have again done on this occasion."

The prime minister did not clarify whether he was concerned about the third boat arrival in the Kimberley since November.

"We have a very large coastline," he said.

"What is clear, though, is that people who are unauthorised arrivals will not be settled in Australia; Operation Sovereign Borders principles will apply, as they have been in this case."

WA Premier Roger Cook said he was confident in the government's approach.

"There have been some arrivals of late, [but] in each case the boat arrivals were detained, and they were processed in the usual way," Mr Cook said.

"So this is actually a sign that our border protection policies and regulation is actually working."

'Indictment' on the government

Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham described the latest arrivals in the Kimberley as a failure on the government's part.

"This is the third boat since November that appears to have made it to the Australian mainland, potentially not only making it to the Australian mainland but offloading passengers and then departing without any detection of that boat happening," he said on the ABC's Insiders program.

"This is a big indictment on the Albanese government if that is the case, that boats are making it to the mainland and departing with increasing frequency without detection.

"It comes at a time where the evidence provided to Senate committees and procedures shows that we have a reduction in relation to maritime surveillance, a reduction in relation to aerial surveillance, concerns about the future budget projections for Operation Sovereign Borders and a government that's dismantled the temporary protection visas, a pillar of those arrangements.

"So the Albanese government needs to acknowledge if there are increasing failures here, those problems, their responsibility and to act to fix them."

Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson echoed Mr Birmingham's comments.

"Since this election, this government has done many things to undermine our successful policies to stop people smugglers," he said.

"We warned them before they abolished temporary protection visas that that would give people incentives to get on the boats again to try and come again, and lo and behold, that's exactly what's happening."

Mr Paterson said it appeared the arrivals were being moved to Nauru, where their claims would be assessed.

"It is unusual, if true, that it is Chinese nationals on this people smuggling venture … there haven't been any for a decade, so that is unusual," he said.

"I certainly understand why someone would not want to live under Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party, but it would depend on their individual circumstances.

"If they're found to be refugees then they'll be offered third-country resettlement options, as they should."

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Police find missing member of group who reached remote Western Australia coast by boat

Search was conducted in difficult terrain near Mitchell Plateau as Coalition presses government over ‘third boat since November’

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A man has been found in “relatively good condition” after becoming separated from a group of people who reached a remote pocket of the Kimberley coastline in Western Australia by boat.

A source confirmed to Guardian Australia that nine individuals had reached Australia’s mainland but did not confirm what nation they had arrived from.

The Australian Border Force said it did not comment on operational matters, continuing a longstanding tradition established by the Coalition in 2013. A spokesperson for the home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, also said they would not comment on operational matters.

According to the Western Australian police force, an unknown vessel carrying a group of people landed in a remote area of the Kimberley on Friday 5 April. One person became separated from the group, police said.

In a statement on Sunday, WA police confirmed it had found the man during a land operation in an “extremely remote area” with “challenging terrain”.

“A number of WA police resources were deployed to the Mitchell Plateau area this morning … to continue search efforts for a man reported to have been missing in the area since Friday,” it said.

“During a preliminary ground appreciation, WA police officers located the man standing on a track not far from the Truscott Air Base.

“It has been confirmed the man was part of a group that arrived to Australia via an unknown vessel.”

WA police said it was unknown “how or why” the man had become separated from the group, but he was in relatively good condition and receiving medical treatment from a doctor at the Truscott Airbase.

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The shadow foreign minister, Simon Birmingham , was asked about the arrival on Insiders, following reports in The Australian that the group appeared to be of Chinese descent.

Pressed on whether Chinese people seeking protection should be placed into a special category, Birmingham said “consideration of protection is done according to the legal frameworks around refugee environments”.

He then pressed the federal government on its response, noting it was “the third boat since November that appears to have made it to the Australian mainland”.

“Potentially not even making it to the Australian mainland but off-loading passengers and then departing without any detection,” he said.

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“This is a big indictment on the Albanese government if that is the case.”

The incident follows the detection of 39 asylum seekers in a remote part of Western Australia in February at Beagle Bay , and at an Indigenous campsite at Pender Bay.

Authorities believed both groups arrived on the same boat, although Pender Bay is about 25km north of where the first group was found. All individuals were transported to Nauru for processing.

In November, a group of 12 people who arrived on the Western Australian coast were taken into ABF custody .

Labor has maintained the core planks of Operation Sovereign Borders , including offshore detention and turning boats back where safe to do so.

Speaking in February, O’Neil said Labor’s commitment to the policy was “absolute”.

“Every person who has attempted to reach Australia by boat since I have been minister is back in their home country, or in Nauru, having wasted thousands of dollars and having risked their lives,” she said.

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