BURKE AND DUTTON TRAVEL
As new Home Affairs supremo Tony Burke travels to Indonesia for bilateral security talks after being sworn in to his new position, The Australian is keen to highlight the fact surveillance flights for detecting illegal boat arrivals off Australia’s northwest coast have dropped 22% in two years. The paper says new figures show surveillance flying hours for Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) dropped 2% in the last financial year following a 20% drop in 2022-23. It adds the OSB stats show three boats carrying a combined 49 people were intercepted in June, but don’t yet include the fact over 70 people were turned back by the Australian Border Force in July.
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