Australian Border Force are reportedly buying crayfishing boats for hundreds of thousands of dollars in Geraldton and swapping out unseaworthy people smuggler vessels intercepted before enforcing their return to Indonesia.

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Perth Today host Simon Beaumont spoke to Geraldton Mayor Jerry Clune, who was not convinced the practice would be effective.

‘It’s certainly a novel approach to, I guess, a humanitarian type of way of saying, here on you go, and don’t come back, but I don’t know what the guarantee is not to come back,’ he said.

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