00:00 Sheltering from the wet season heat at the end of a long journey.
00:06 The men say it took five days on a boat from Indonesia to arrive in Australia
00:10 and they then had to walk 35 kilometres from an isolated beach.
00:14 Before 21 of them were discovered by a local family and brought to the Beagle Bay community,
00:19 about 130 kilometres north of Broome.
00:22 We don't have the water and we face many difficulties.
00:26 I feel like some people are dying.
00:33 Mohamed claims he previously came to Australia several years ago
00:37 but was deported back to Pakistan where he was kidnapped and tortured.
00:40 I don't want to go back to Pakistan.
00:42 They are treating us like human beings in our country.
00:49 Australian Border Force has been contacted as part of efforts to verify his claims.
00:54 As the ABC filmed, another local family then pulled up after discovering more men nearby.
01:00 They found three young fellas.
01:03 I didn't have a clue where they were or what they were doing or what's going on.
01:08 So we just took them home and gave them a feed and water and a shower.
01:14 It is not known how many other people may also have arrived and not been detected.
01:20 It's a pretty surreal scene here at the Beagle Bay community at the moment.
01:24 Out here in the park the men are sitting, they have water,
01:27 sitting out in the open while police supervise them.
01:30 Australian Border Force officers later took the men away to be questioned.
01:34 The Prime Minister indicated asylum seekers who arrived by boat would not be allowed to settle in Australia.
01:40 Our policies are clear which is that.
01:43 Boats that arrive in that fashion, we have policies in place to ensure that they're dealt with.
01:49 The opposition accused the government of losing control of the borders.
01:53 Clearly there's been a catastrophic failure in the system here because this boat has arrived undetected.
01:58 The major concern locally, that the men are safe and healthy.
02:03 Main thing, their welfare and that they're safe and healthy and happy here.
02:07 A memorable day on one of the most remote sections of coastline in Australia.
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