During the whole of the Rudd Gillard Rudd period the ABC did its best to downplay boat arrivals.

Within days of the election of the Abbott LNP Government the ABC set up a purpose built website calling it "Operation Sovereign Borders Log of Boat Arrivals".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-25/log-of-boat-arrivals-and-other-asylum-seeker-incidents/5014496

I wrote about it at the time - you can see our piece at the bottom of this page.

Here's the ABC's boat arrival log - paints a very different picture from the "stopped the boats" facts.

Operation Sovereign Borders: log of boat arrivals and other asylum seeker incidents

Updated 9 May 2016, 12:36pm

This page collates the official Federal Government figures on the number of asylum seekers arriving under the Operation Sovereign Borders regime, which came into effect on September 18, 2013.

Operation Sovereign Borders

Note: In the period from September 8 to September 21 2013, there were seven boats detected with 475 passengers and 16 crew on board. A boat intercepted on September 26 with 44 asylum seekers on board was returned to Indonesian authorities, as was another intercepted on September 27 with 31 asylum seekers on board. A boat capsized off Java on September 27 with 80 on board, of whom at least 31 died.

At the December 6 briefing, it was reported that there were 27 people from a boat believed to have sunk whose status had yet to be determined. Twenty-two were at Christmas Island.

Crew: There were two crew on board the September 22 arrival, two crew on board the September 26 interception and three crew on board the September 27 interception. From September 23 to 30, there were an additional eight unspecified crew arrivals. From October 11 to 18 there were three unspecified crew arrivals and from October 18 to 25 there were four crew arrivals. From November 8 to 15, eight crew arrived onboard three vessels. Four crew arrived on the November 17 boat included in the November 22 briefing. Two crew arrived with the November 27 boat. Six crew were transferred to Christmas Island during the December 6 reporting period. Two crew arrived on one boat were transferred to border protection authorities during the December 13 reporting period. Four crew arrived on two boats during the December 20 reporting period.

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*A Department of Immigration figure. There was no figure given at the 23 September OSB briefing.

**There were another 43 people in transit to Nauru at the time of the October 4 briefing.

***According to figures supplied on June 30, 2014. 

At the October 25 briefing, it was stated that 28 asylum seekers were returned to Vietnam on October 23.

At the November 1 briefing, it was stated that 67 people had voluntarily returned to their country of origin since the start of Operation Sovereign Borders.

At the November 15 briefing, it was stated that 31 asylum seekers had opted to return home voluntarily to Iran and Iraq during the reporting period. Twenty-one people (eight from Nauru and 13 from Manus) returned to Iran between November 15 and November 22. One person returned to Iran in the December 6 reporting period. 

At the December 13 briefing, it was stated that one asylum seeker had opted to return home to Iran voluntarily.

ENDS

Here's our 2013 report.

SATURDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2013