> This has significantly deterred economic migrants from entering via boat. This is hard to say - under "Operation Sovereign Borders" all boat arrivals are mil

> This has significantly deterred economic migrants from entering via boat. This is hard to say - under "Operation Sovereign Borders" all boat arrivals are military secrets, so there's not much data on arrivals except what the government announces. The Australian navy has literally towed back boats in defiance of international laws (Wikipedia: "In August 2015, minister Dutton stated that since December 2013, 633 people on 20 vessels have been subject to turnback operations, including a boat from Vietnam in July), so at least on that front the boats haven't been quite stopped (they just don't go all the way any more). And as for the violation of human rights: you have a right to seek asylum. You're conveniently forgetting that people who have been placed on Nauru by the Australian government have been murdered and raped, completely unnecessary. Quote Wikipedia again: >In 2015, several staff members from the detention centre wrote an open letter claiming that multiple instances of sexual abuse against women and children had occurred.[6] The letter claimed that the Australian government had been aware of these abuses for over 18 months.[7] This letter added weight to the Moss review which found it possible that "guards had traded marijuana for sexual favours with asylum seeker children".[8] [9][10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Centre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Cent... We can't really judge the situation there because journalists or international observers are not allowed in.