text: The federal government will be investing $4.1 million on a TV drama which is set to broadcast overseas as a way of deterring asylum seekers from entering Australian shores by boat. ABC program Lateline revealed the telemovie will be shown in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan later in the year, urging asylum seekers not to trust people smugglers. The drama, commissioned by the Customs and Border Security Agency, will reportedly have a story-line which involves the Australian Navy and asylum seekers drowning at sea. The federal government will be investing $4.1 million on a TV drama which is set to broadcast overseas as a way of deterring asylum seekers from entering Australian shores by boat . The telemovie will be shown in countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan later in the year, urging asylum seekers not to trust people smugglers . An Immigration Department spokesperson would not clarify whether the government will fully fund the drama. However the spokesperson told Lateline that 'television soap operas and telemovies are proven media to reach the target audience when seeking to deliver complex messages'. 'Each broadcast will be accompanied by a major awareness campaign across television and social media,' the spokesperson said. Producing the show will be Sydney company Put It Out There Pictures. This comes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott stated that only the Coalition would be able to stop asylum seeker boats . Despite the multi-million dollar funding, Phil Glendenning - president of Refugee Council of Australia -  told Lateline that he has doubts the show will discourage people from countries like Afghanistan and Syria. 'A TV show isn't going to stop people who are running from the Taliban,' he said. Mr Glendenning says the government should instead use the funds to help the United Nations High Commission for Refugees give asylum seekers better security. This comes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott stated that only the Coalition would be able to stop asylum seeker boats, the Guardian reports. 'I'm also confident that only this government can keep them stopped because any other government, I suspect, would quickly succumb to the cries of the human rights lawyers and others and what that would mean, very quickly, is that the people smugglers would be back in business,' he said on Thursday.
target: The Australian government will make a multi-million dollar telemovie .
  It has been commissioned by the Customs and Border Security Agency .
  The drama is set to be shown in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan .
  It will be produced by Sydney-based company Put It Out There Pictures .
  ABC program Lateline reports the story-line will be of the Australian Navy and asylum seekers drowning at sea .
  The drama will reportedly be shown later in the year, urging asylum seekers not to trust people smugglers .