00:00 The ABC has confirmed that 12 people have made it to a remote part of the north-west
00:08 of Australia's mainland, so a part of the West Australian coast around the township
00:14 of Truscott.
00:15 We know that they've arrived from Indonesia, but I'm told that authorities are yet to establish
00:21 precisely where their boat is now, whether they were dropped off.
00:25 There are suggestions locally that they were in fact rescued by an Indigenous community
00:31 in this part of the Kimberley coast of Western Australia.
00:36 That is yet to be confirmed, but authorities are now trying to establish exactly how this
00:42 group of a dozen people arrived undetected to Australia.
00:47 And now, of course, this is going to require a bit more investigating and authorities are
00:54 going through their usual processes.
00:56 And has there been any official response?
00:58 No, there hasn't.
01:00 The ABC has contacted the Australian Border Force for comment.
01:04 It says that it does not comment on operational matters.
01:08 We know that with boat arrivals there is a regular reporting that happens every month
01:14 or so, but that won't happen for some time yet.
01:18 But the opposition has been quick to comment.
01:21 The Shadow Home Affairs Minister, James Paterson, says that if confirmed officially that this
01:27 is an asylum seeker boat arrival, that that would be, quote, "alarming" and he has pointed
01:33 out that it would be the 10th illegal boat arrival since the election in May last year.
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