“The people-smuggling business model is built on the exploitation of information and selling lies to vulnerable people who will give up everything to risk their lives at sea.”
The incident comes almost three months after the arrival of another group of 12 people who landed a boat in another remote section of coastline in the Kimberley in late November.
That boatload was promptly taken to the government’s offshore detention centre in Nauru.
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