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Indonesian police and immigration officials negotiate with a group of 120 Australia-bound asylum seekers to disembark a tanker docked off Merak port in the west of Java on April 9, 2012. (Kris Aria/AFP/Getty Images)

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accepted recommendations from an expert panel, that asylum seekers who arrive by boat, a method that has caused many deaths, be deported to remote islands in the Pacific Ocean for a period of time equal to the normal refugee process, as a deterrent.

Gillard said the government will push to start up offshore processing in Nauru and Manus Island.

“We will urgently move on a set of these recommendations. First and foremost, we will in Parliament tomorrow introduce amendments,” she said on Monday, according to a transcript.

“Those amendments will be to enable us to commence processing arrangements on Nauru” and on Manus Island, which is a part of Papua New Guinea, she added.

In recent years, Australia has experienced an increase in people, usually from Afghanistan, Iran, and Sri Lanka, seeking asylum. Over the weekend, 170 people arrived in the country via several boats.

The report was commissioned by an independent panel led by former defense chief Angus Houston and was designed to break a parliamentary deadlock on the matter. 

The panel came up with 22 recommendations, including increasing cooperation with Indonesia regarding search and rescue as well as surveillance, reviews on related laws and legislation, and increasing Australia’s humanitarian scope from 13,000 to 20,000 places per year. 

It also recommends that, as a further deterrent, “those who arrive by irregular maritime means who seek to bring family to Australia will need to do so under the existing family stream of the migration program,” Mr. Houston told reporters in Canberra.

In June, two boats carrying hundreds of people capsized near Christmas Island, killing dozens of people. In the past three years, around 600 asylum-seekers have lost their lives trying to get to Australia by boat.

Gillard said legislation approving the deportation of asylum-seekers would be introduced in parliament on Tuesday.