Turning away refugees goes against the 1951 United Nations refugee convention. “The journey refugees make is dangerous and controlled by criminal gangs, and we have a right to stop it,” says both Labour and coalition parties, who support tough refugee policies (source 6). Australia’s leading coalition government made refugee and asylum seeker policies strict when it took government in 2013, which first introduced the military in control of intercepting refugees on Australian waters, turning them away (source 6). The liberal government responded to this by saying “its policies have restored the integrity of its borders and helped prevent deaths at sea” (source 6). The government is causing deaths at sea because they are sending back refugees
