In Britain former Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage told The Times he would end the right to claim asylum or to challenge deportation for those who arrived by small boats by replacing existing human rights legislation and opting Britain out of refugee treaties, citing a national emergency.
Farage's plan echoes Australia's offshore processing system, which has been heavily criticised by human rights advocates.
Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders policy initiative — established in 2013, pledging to "stop the boats" — is a military-led border security operation that takes a hard-line, zero-tolerance stance towards unapproved sea arrivals.
Those suspected of attempting such arrivals into Australia are typically either intercepted and turned back or placed in offshore detention facilities in places such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.