UNLESS THE WATER IS SAFER THAN LAND LIZA WALLING
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An overview of a report by the Centre for Research Architecture conducted in 2017-2018
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Operation Sovereign Borders was an Australian border security strategy that commenced in September 2013 and ended in February 2017. The scale of the operation was huge, mobilizing an estimated $A9.6 billion dollars into a military and naval operation and propaganda campaign to deter asylum boat arrivals to Australia. The policies and associated propaganda (figure 0) of Operation Sovereign Borders served to secure the “border� outside, while promoting exclusive national identity inside. The Centre for Research Architecture, after receiving a communique and guidance from the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), began research documenting the sheer scale of the operation through fragmentary media reports, witness testimonies, GIS data, and official Senate hearing and court documents. The CRA complied research on over 60 cases of naval operations,
Fi g ure 0 | A sc re e n sho t f ro m an O pe rat i o n S o v e reig n Borders adv ertisem ent nar rat i ng by t he co m m an de r o f t he o pe rat i o n , A ng us C am pbell.
