article_snippet.sent: There were dramatic changes in Australia's immigration policy in 2013, in the final months of the Labor government, led by Kevin Rudd, which have been followed up and taken further by the current Liberal National coalition government, led by Abbott.
article_snippet.sent: In 2013, with bipartisan support of those two major parties, Australia Australia was legally "excised" from the migration zone.
article_snippet.sent: If We accept that these responses have worked, the question for the Labor government is whether the Labor government is sustainable, and whether the Labor government alleviating the flow of asylum seekers in the larger Asia Pacific region.
article_snippet.sent: The later years of the Howard administration saw both policy and budget departures from 2001's "Pacific Solution," which first introduced the excision zones and temporary protection visas as deterrents to asylum seekers.
article_snippet.sent: the Labor government abandoned temporary protection visas altogether but retained the excision zones; this occurred in a period of heightened regional instability, leading to an increase of asylum seekers under the Rudd era.
article_snippet.sent: The earlier Howard years of deterrence did not provide long-term solutions regarding the regional flow of asylum seekers.
article_snippet.sent: At present, in the greater South-East Asian region, we may see potential regional pressures finding a way to Australian shores.
article_snippet.sent: At the same time, the number of asylum seekers attempting to flee within the Asia Pacific region has increased; the number of asylum seekers attempting to flee within the Asia Pacific region are just not making the number of asylum seekers attempting to flee within the Asia Pacific region to Australia yet.
article_snippet.sent: It certainly has not ended people smuggling or people's attempts to seek asylum in the wider Asia-Pacific region.