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It has now been 64 days since there has been a successful people smuggling venture to Australia.
This is the longest period without a successful venture since before August 2008 when Labor started the boats.
This is a significant milestone. It demonstrates that the boats are stopping and the Coalition Government is delivering the safe, secure Australia that we promised the Australian people.
Operation Sovereign Borders is working and the people smugglers are getting the message that Australia is under new management.
The policy changes we took to the election are being implemented and it is clear that demonstrable progress against the people smugglers is being made.
This progress is in contrast to the deterioration that occurred under Labor.
On average, a boat arrived every day during the last year of Labor. At its peak last July, Australia witnessed over 4,200 illegal arrivals in a single month.
Under Labor’s failed policies, there were over 50,000 illegal arrivals, over 1,000 drownings at sea and $11 billion in Budget blowouts.
The Coalition Government will never let Australia go back to the failed policies of the past.
The Government’s strong resolve on our borders remains. The Coalition Government will not take a backward step in the fight against people smugglers.
Scott Morrison
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
Authorised by Brian Loughnane, Cnr Blackall and Macquarie Streets, Barton ACT 2604.
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Events
- 303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
- 532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
- 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
- 1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
- 1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
- 1847 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican GeneralAntonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
- 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
- 1918 – Last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
- 1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
- 1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
- 1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and arephotographed raising the American flag.
- 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
- 1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
- 1966 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
- 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
- 1980 – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
- 2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
Births
- 1417 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
- 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (d. 1656)
- 1633 – Samuel Pepys, English administrator and politician (d. 1703)
- 1646 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
- 1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
- 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German-English composer (d. 1759)
- 1729 – Josiah Hornblower, English-American engineer and politician (d. 1809)
- 1744 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (d. 1812)
- 1850 – César Ritz, Swiss businessman, founded The Ritz London Hotel and Hôtel Ritz Paris (d. 1918)
- 1852 – Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
- 1940 – Peter Fonda, American actor
- 1973 – Jason_Boyd_(baseball), American baseball player
- 1973 – Jeff Nordgaard, American/Polish basketball player
- 1983 – Emily Blunt, English actress
- 1994 – Dakota Fanning, American actress
- 2012 – Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland
Deaths
- 943 – Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
- 1821 – John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
- 1848 – John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
- 1931 – Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (b. 1861)
- 1934 – Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
- 1976 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
- 1995 – James Herriot, English surgeon and author (b. 1916)
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