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The Children Overboard affair was an Australian political controversy involving public allegations by Howard government ministers in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, that seafaring asylum seekers had thrown children overboard in a presumed ploy to secure rescue and passage on 7 October 2001.
ABC news report by Margot O'Neill on the Tampa affair and its political context, October 2001. In late August 2001, the Howard government of Australia refused permission for the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying 433 rescued refugees (predominantly Hazaras of Afghanistan from a distressed fishing vessel in international waters) and 5 crew, to enter Australian waters.
SIEV X was the name assigned by Australian authorities to an Indonesian fishing boat carrying over 400 asylum seekers en route to Australia, which capsized in international waters with great loss of life on 19 October 2001.
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The vessel involved in the children overboard affair was the SIEV-4. The vessel that sank in 2001, killing 353 asylum seekers (mostly women and children) was designated by the press as SIEV X (a temporary operational term used by Coastwatch prior to designation, the SIEV-X often referred to in the press was reported not to have been detected ...
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Two Americans "are presumed deceased" after they vanished from their yacht in Grenada, leaving behind evidence of a bloody struggle, police in nearby St.
The Tampa affair, the Pacific solution, the Children Overboard affair are discussed. The book investigates other countries' views of Australia and the role of the Australian Labor Party and One Nation party. [2] [3] [4] Marr and Wilkinson have worked together on previous journalistic investigations at The National Times in the 1980s.