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	Merchant Navy
		HMAS Manoora, an armed merchant cruiser, fitted with seven 6 inch guns.
		Formerly an Australian coastal passenger liner owned by the Adelaide Steamship Company, Manoora was requisitioned on the 14 October 1939 by the Naval Board
		Contrary to popular belief, merchant seaman were not well-paid, did not have comfortable working hours, and their living conditions were often very poor.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/merchant_navy.htm (394 words)

	Australia - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Australia
		In an unprecedented move, Australian troops prevented the mainly Afghan refugees from landing and 40 soldiers boarded the freighter, the MV Tampa, threatening to sail it out of territorial waters.
		After an eight-day stand-off, the unwanted asylum-seekers transferred to the HMAS Manoora, which took them to Papua New Guinea from where they were flown to New Zealand and Nauru, where applications for refugee status would be processed.
		However, the Australian government received a humiliating setback on 11 September when the Federal Court ruled that it had acted illegally in refusing the refugees permission to apply for asylum in the country and that they must be allowed to land.
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