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	Children overboard affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The asylum-seeker laden SIEV-4, the vessel at the centre of the children overboard affair.
		The children overboard affair is an Australian political scandal which arose in 2001 when the government claimed that “a number of children had been thrown overboard” from a “suspected illegal entry vessel” (or SIEV) which had been intercepted by HMAS Adelaide off Christmas Island.
		The motivation of those allegedly throwing their children overboard, according to those who reported the incident, was to effectively "force" the Royal Australian Navy to rescue the children and their parents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Children_overboard_affair (846 words)

	b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal
		But with the ‘Children Overboard’ affair, as if these negative associations were not enough, they were also painted as people who would willingly sacrifice or endanger their own children to force their way into Australia, which, interestingly, also cast their status as ‘genuine’ refugees into doubt.
		In the case of the frank lie and the Children Overboard affair this is most evident, as Derrida suggests, in the difficulty in proving the lie.
		In the case of the Children Overboard affair, this means that the judgement that John Howard is responsible for a lie should not be confused with an ethical resolution to the event of the lie.
	www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au /vol3no1_2004/miller_truth.htm (8199 words)

	Children Overboard - SourceWatch
		However, in the last week of the election campaign doubts that the released photos were in fact of children 'thrown' into the water but of people being rescued when their boat sank on October 8.
		The federal government continued to claim that children were thrown overboard and used the issue to help them win another term in the federal election.
		As a result of the submissions and the cross-exemination of military officers and other witnesses, the claims that children were thrown overboard were disproved.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Children_Overboard (862 words)

	The unthrown kids: A Certain Maritime Incident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One sailor had said: "Whatever you hear, the asylum seekers did not throw their children overboard.- A resident said he was told the boat was already sinking and "that was the reason they were in the water".
		PHOTOGRAPHS of happy children being cuddled and cared for by relieved asylum-seeker parents have emerged, more than 18 months after the same parents were wrongly accused of throwing their children overboard.
		The "children overboard" affair is the most perilous political problem that has faced the Howard Government since it was first elected in March, 1996.
	www.safecom.org.au /kids-overboard.htm (4548 words)

	Australian PM John Howard Accused of Misleading Public
		Government members exaggerated the "children overboard" incident to demonise asylum seekers, misinform the electorate and divide the Opposition Labor party right up until election day.
		The "children overboard" incident has since become one of the most controversial episodes in Australian political history.
		He gave me a description of the video and expressed the view it was inconclusive." Mr Howard denied he discussed photos taken of the children overboard and claims he was not made aware of the change in the Defense Department stance on the issue.
	expage.com /childrenoverboard (661 words)

	Children overboard affair (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The [[refugee laden SIEV-4, the boat that sparked the affair]] The children overboard affair is an Australian political scandal, first appearing on the eve of the 2001 legislative elections.
		According to the Senate inquiry reporthttp://www.aph.gov.au.cob-web.org:8888/Senate/committee/maritime_incident_ctte/report/f04.doc, passengers aboard a number of other SIEV's threatened children, sabotaged their vessels, committed self harm, and in at least one case (that of SIEV-7 on 22 October) actually threw a child overboard, who was subsequently rescued by another asylum seeker.
		While the children overboard affair received widespread coverage and discussion within political and media circles and was made a central part of the Australian Labor Party's election campaign, the government maintained that the Australian public was uninterested in the entire affair http://www.abc.net.au.cob-web.org:8888/am/content/2004/s1179098.htm and appears to have been proven correct http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au.cob-web.org:8888/common/story_page/0,5744,11042692%255E12272,00.html with an emphatic electoral victory.
	children-overboard-affair.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (556 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Senate inquiry into the children overboard affair is on hold as Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet chief Max Moore-Wilton investigates a possible attempt to influence a witness at the inquiry.
		Dr Hammer is accused of trying to coach Commander Stefan King, defence liaison officer in PM&C when the children overboard affair arose last October, in his answers to the Senate inquiry.
		He said he had acted only on the best advice he had at the time, which was that children had been thrown into the sea.
	www.angelfire.com /ia3/ironside/862.doc (296 words)

	Parliament of Australia: Senate Select Committee on the Scrafton Evidence - Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They suggested that people who threw their children overboard in such a manner were not genuine refugees or desirable immigrants.
		Yet the Prime Minister and senior ministers still contended that their 'children overboard' claims were based on advice, and that the original advice had never been retracted.
		At no stage did he admit that he was aware of problems with both the original 'children overboard' advice and the evidence used to support that advice.
	www.aph.gov.au /Senate/Committee/scrafton_ctte/report/c01.htm (1280 words)

	CNN.com - Howard feels heat over boat claims - Aug 16, 2004
		Howard has always maintained he was acting on the advice of the defense department in saying that children had been thrown overboard and that he was not made aware of the change of position until after the November 10 election.
		Howard repeated the children overboard claims on several occasions after November 7, including during a television interview on the morning of the election.
		The revival of the "children overboard" issue is likely to serve as a distraction for the government as it tries to sell the electorate a positive story of its achievements in what is shaping up as a tight race.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/16/australia.politics/index.html (635 words)

	Shepparton News Online - McPherson Media Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The "children overboard" affair has taken on more than a special interest for Shepparton's Wafa Almadani, her brother Abdalla Almadani and their mother Nadeema Alhussainy.
		The three were passengers on the boat which sank off the northwest coast of Australia three years ago and was surrounded by the "children overboard" allegations in the weeks leading up to the November 2001 Federal Election.
		She said when the boat had stopped on October 7, and pieces of the boat were breaking off and falling into the water, the passengers had pleaded with army personnel to take them on board.
	news.mcmedia.com.au /story.asp?TakeNo=200409024028988 (511 words)

	PM - Children overboard chronology
		MARK COLVIN: This all hinges of course on the question of whether the Prime Minister misled the Australian public when he said he'd never been advised that the children overboard affair did not occur.
		It was in the last week or two of the election campaign that the debate over the Government's children overboard claims began to erupt.
		NICK GRIMM: The boatloads of asylum-seekers arriving in Australian waters to the north were already a hot political issue when the Federal Government levelled the accusation that some had thrown their children overboard in order to gain asylum.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2004/s1177925.htm (1116 words)

	Just Comment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As events have unfolded in the children overboard affair the question does not so much concern whether the government lied to a public expecting untruthful politicians but whether there is evidence of a cover-up in a pre-election campaign.
		Within hours accusations were emerging that asylum seekers had thrown their children overboard to gain attention to their plight and gain asylum.
		The events unfolding in the Children Overboard Affair indicate that even if the public are not paying attention, the fundamental tenants of democracy require basic principles of truth and accountability.
	www.erc.org.au /just_comments/1096352743.shtml (1129 words)

	02/17/02: Yo Aussies, reading about your government is a fine diversion from ours :)
		The Government last night was forced into another embarrassing correction over the children overboard affair, admitting the two misleading photographs released by the former Defence Minister, Peter Reith, were not the only ones received by his office.
		The pictures were among 364 navy photos, the sequence of which made it clear the children were in the water because their boat had sunk.
		Almost all the photographs make it clear the children were in the water because their vessel had sunk and they were being rescued.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/johnq/19.html (840 words)

	Peter Cosgrove Appointed Chief Of Defence Force [May 28, 2002] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the aftermath of the "children overboard" affair, the Federal Government yesterday announced a shake-up of the Australian Defence Force which promoted Lieutenant General Peter Cosgrove to Chief of the Defence Force and saw the departure of two key players in the 'children overboard' affair.
		Cosgrove was the only one of the four most senior military leaders to be untouched by the children overboard affair.
		Admiral Barrie became the government's staunchest defender in the controversy, until he was forced into a humiliating backdown in March, prompting the famed question from journalist Laurie Oakes as to whether Barrie felt like a "dill".
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/05/02-05-28.shtml (4079 words)

	PM - Labor grumbles about Children Overboard Affair
		MARK COLVIN: The Labor dominated Senate Inquiry into the so-called Children Overboard Affair has concluded that the former Defence Minister, Peter Reith, and his staff, deceived the Australian public during the last election.
		GEORGE BRANDIS: The entire Children Overboard Inquiry was nothing more and nothing less than an orgy of self-pity and misplaced outrage engaged in by the Australian Labor Party, because they lost the Federal Election.
		JOHN FAULKNER: On literally 13 occasions, the Prime Minister's Office, the Prime Minister's Department, or the Prime Minister, were told that children had not been thrown overboard, or that the photographs which purported to represent children who had been thrown overboard in the water, were false.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s709150.htm (751 words)

	truth overboard: "Overboard" lie exposed
		On October 10 - the same day that Peter Reith released photos of children in the water to support his claims about children being thrown overboard - government officials knew it was false.
		An article in The Age explains how the Howard Government was told early in the election campaign that its claim of asylum seekers throwing children overboard was false – but it failed to inform the public.
		The affair has shown a depressing picture of those in power either not seeking or actively rejecting facts which didn’t serve their political needs.
	www.truthoverboard.com /story1.html (575 words)

	When the truth is all at sea - Aaron Patrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The children overboard affair really began on April 15, 1912, when the HMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the Grand Banks region of the Atlantic Ocean.
		According to a signal from the Adelaide, some passengers threatened to commit suicide or throw their children overboard if they were not taken to Australia.
		"No children were thrown overboard, no children were put in the water and it was a little surprising to me that that was being questioned," Banks told the inquiry, referring to a conversation with Silverstone.
	sievx.com /articles/psdp/20020419AaronPatrick.html (3355 words)

	Australia lied about refugees throwing children overboard: Senate inquiry’s finding -DAWN - International; October 25, ...
		Reith was a central figure in the “children overboard” affair, which became one of the key issues of the Australian federal election last year.
		He claimed that refugees on a ship off the country’s northwest coast had been throwing their children overboard, in an attempt to force the Australian navy to recover them and allow them to claim asylum.
		It said that the children overboard story had been propagated for political reasons.
	www.dawn.com /2002/10/25/int3.htm (644 words)

	Reportage Home
		Hundreds of previously classified documents on the Tampa stand-off and the children overboard affair have been released to the Herald after a drawn-out freedom of information request to the Defence Force.
		The children overboard affair, in which the Government accused asylum seekers of throwing their children into the sea, occurred in the early stages of the campaign.
		Among the documents released to the Sydney Morning Herald are the log entries from the SAS boarding party that seized control of the Tampa, the Norwegian vessel that rescued the asylum seekers off Christmas Island on August 26.
	www.reportage.uts.edu.au /stories/2002/political/tampatruths.html (1497 words)

	One Man's Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Labor-controlled committee said Mr Howard, his office or his department were told 13 times of doubts about whether children had been thrown overboard when their boat, Siev 4, was intercepted by HMAS Adelaide on October 6 last year.
		All three Ministers, throughout the 2001 election campaign, allowed the lie, that children had been thrown overboard, to remain fixed in the public imagination.
		Senator Brandis did not adhere to his undertaking to show the non-government members of the committee his report before it was printed as part of the tabling document.
	www.onemansweb.org /jan/politics/truthoverboard.htm (1560 words)

	WikiMiki.net - Children overboard affair (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Senate inquiry did however find that passengers aboard a number of other SIEVs had threatened children, sabotaged their vessels, committed self-harm, and in at least one case (that of SIEV-7 on 22 October), a child had actually been thrown overboard, but was subsequently rescued by another asylum seeker [http://www.aph.gov.au.cob-web.org:8888/Senate/committee/maritime_incident_ctte/report/f04.doc].
		The vessel involved in the children overboard affair was the SIEV-4.
		The participants were 1,000 children aged 12 to 16 years from governmental, private, and United Nations Relief Work Agency UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem and various governorates in the West Bank.
	escritura.acrofontica.es.wikimiki.net.cob-web.org:8888 /en/children+overboard+affair (10673 words)

	smhhoward30.12.02
		This year the only threat to the new balance of forces came in the aftermath of the "children overboard" affair.
		The Government weathered the children overboard scandal unscathed.
		Nonetheless, despite the fact that Australia had no asylum seeker "problem", hundreds of men, women and children, whose refugee applications had been rejected but who could not be repatriated, were left to rot in the detention camps.
	www.gaiaguys.net /smhhoward30.12.02.htm (952 words)

	Children overboard toy 'offensive' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A bath toy that satirises the children overboard affair and was being sold on the internet to benefit a Greens candidate has been withdrawn after being criticised as sick and insensitive.
		The toy - a wooden boat with figurines of John Howard and asylum-seeker children that could be thrown into the bath - was offered by the website johnnybackflip.com for $19.
		He said the toy was based on a "fictitious event" - the Government's claims that children were thrown overboard from an asylum-seeker boat.
	sievx.com /articles/mentions/2004/20041005MeaghanShaw.html (381 words)

	Australian Labor Party: More Questions Still No Answers
		(17)On how many occasions prior to 10 November 2001 did he discuss the children overboard incident with Ms Jane Halton, what were the dates of their discussions and what advice did she provide.
		(18)On how many occasions after 10 November 2001 did he discuss the children overboard incident with Ms Jane Halton, what were the dates of their discussions and what advice did she provide.
		(19)On how many occasions prior to 10 November 2001 did he discuss the children overboard incident with Mr Max Moore-Wilton, what were the dates of their discussions and what advice did he provide.
	www.alp.org.au /media/0205/msfll180.php (930 words)

	Disinformation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Australian politicians have called for Prime Minister John Howard to resign over the 'children overboard' affair, the refugee incident which overshadowed the 2001 election, after new allegations have surfaced.
		Defence liaison Mike Scrafton claims he told Howard, three days before the election, that the 'children overboard' affair was false.
		Labor defence spokesman Kim Beazley has called for the Australian Senate inquiry to be re-opened into the 'children overboard' affair.
	www.disinfo.com /site/printarticle5142.html (96 words)

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