Claim: A picture shows the Australian Navy ramming a boat full of illegal immigrants, who were all later returned to their home country while the crew was arrested and the boat scrapped.
Fact-check: Picture doesn't show Australian Navy ramming 'illegal immigrant' boat - Full Fact
Verdict: this isn't what the picture shows. it was taken in 2012 and actually shows two japanese ships trapping a smaller boat carrying chinese activists in the east china sea, close to a group of uninhabited islands contested by the two nations. australia does turn back people who make unauthorised boat voyages.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2023-08-22T00:00:00