An asylum boat which left Sri Lanka was turned back by Australian border control, the Australian immigration minister, Peter Dutton said on Tuesday.
"We determined that those people aren't refugees and then they go back to their country of origin. We have a good relationship with Sri Lanka as we do with Indonesia," Mr Dutton was quoted by AAP as saying in a radio interview to Brisbane radio 4BC.
Stating that the "threat" of asylum seekers boats remained, Mr Dutton said, "We are dealing with possible ventures regularly."
"There are many millions more potentially who would want to get into Europe but can't, and would be happy to make their way up through Malaysia into Indonesia onto boats to come to our country," he added.
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