Controversy has surrounded sea arrivals in Australia since 2001, when the Howard Government took office. Howard established Operation Relex, a policy that ordered the Royal Australian Navy to intercept and board suspected illegally entering ships, or SIEVs (Turning Back Boats). Initially widely accepted, this policy was designed to discourage people from arriving illegally by boat. However, turning away small, overcrowded boats and returning them just inside Indonesian waters has quickly become a safety issue (Turning Back Boats). According to the Senate Select Committee's investigation into a certain maritime accident, of the 12 boats intercepted from September 2002 to March 2003, four were turned back and three sank, killing two people (Turning Back Boats). Although Australia has the right to secure its borders from illegal aliens, over 90% of these asylum seekers qualify as refugees (Turning Back Boats). Such a low success rate is reason enough to put an end to this dangerous practice, but even more worrying are the detention centers where the remaining 10% are held. In 2001, the Howard Government passed the Pacific Solution, authorizing the transportation of asylum seekers to island nations and offshore detention centers (Turning Back Boats). Since then, countless human rights violations have occurred in detention centers on Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru (Murray). Asylum seekers, including some children, are often detained in poor conditions for indefinite periods of time, subjected to increased scrutiny and denied legal representation or the right to appeal (Australia). After Howard left office in 2006, refugee policies came to a halt and the Australian government worked to repair the damage done to the islanders and its international reputation (Turning Back Boats). However, under Prime Minister Tony Abbott, asylum seeker policies returned in 2014 through Operation Sovereign