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	Green Left - Cover Story: Scrafton's revelations just the tip of the iceberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Scrafton told Howard that “no-one in defence that I dealt with on the matter still believed any children were thrown overboard”.
		Scrafton’s admission indicates how wide the net of people who knew about the lies was — but this revelation is just the tip of a frightening, and sickening, iceberg.
		Scrafton was heavily influenced by the August 7 release of a letter signed by 43 prominent Australians calling for “truth in government”.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2004/595/31915 (1412 words)

	Back Pages: Howard did a runner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		So putting all that together with Scrafton's testimony that at the time of the letter of the 43 he "was established in a new domestic relationship, had settled into a new job and purchased a new home," you can reconstruct a quite credible scenario that goes something like this.
		Scrafton does a bit of a recce and says, yes he's found a spot where he can be heard on the phone and not overheard.
		Scrafton puts a dent in that one (he has the highest level of intelligence clearance and knows stuff), but being a proper public servant suggests Howard ring Kim Jones, the ONA guy, whose responsibility it is.
	backpagesblog.com /weblog/archives/000612.html (2399 words)

	Slattsnews » Overboard and sinking
		Scrafton volunteered that the private dinner at which he took the PM’s calls, involving one other person, a woman, was a two-bottle affair.
		Not every duffer of my age is so fortunate, and so, charitably, let us assume that Mike Scrafton was a little the worse for wear by 10.00pm on the night of November 7th, 2001.
		Your not the only one (especially in the blogosphere) to have been made look gullible by Scrafton, but I suppose there’s going to be a lot of people made to look fools before this election campaign is over.
	www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org /?p=659 (433 words)

	Mike Scrafton: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MIKE SCRAFTON: This is not a political issue for me, this is simply a matter of principle, and I suppose the community has got to draw its own conclusions.
		MIKE SCRAFTON: They certainly weren't, the advice that What the Prime Minister said in my view was certainly not qualified enough based on the information that he had.
		MIKE SCRAFTON: I don't have a message to the public, what I'm interested in is making sure that a process that the senate inquiry has put in place now has full information.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Scrafton_Mike_128304034.htm (830 words)

	Red Rag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As Scrafton pointed out, while he might have forgotten the number and order of the phone calls, it would be very difficult to forget telling the Prime Minister he is a liar.
		Michael Gordon explains that Brandis’ gutless phone-record stunt fails to address the substance of the matter, and summarises Scrafton’s version of the calls and their contents:
		Scrafton insisted that he replied that the report was based on statements by then immigration minister Philip Ruddock and that Howard should call the ONA director-general.
	www.redrag.net /2004/09/02/the-rodent-is-a-liar (1054 words)

	STATEMENT FOR THE MEDIA BY A CONCERNED GROUP OF FORMER SERVICE CHIEFS AND AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMATS
		Mr Scrafton also said he told Mr Howard that photographs purporting to show the children in the water were taken after the boat had sunk, and that nobody he knew in defence believed any children had been thrown overboard.
		A former Government staffer, Mike Scrafton, yesterday said he told Mr Howard three days before the 2001 federal election that he was wrong to claim asylum seekers had thrown their children into the water off northern Australia in an attempt to flmail their way into the country.
		Mr Scrafton said he told Mr Howard in three telephone conversations on November 7 that video evidence was inconclusive and that photos being distributed were not of children being thrown overboard from the boat, dubbed SIEV 4, but of a rescue the following day as it was sinking.
	www.gaiaguys.net /truth.in.govt.htm (12979 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Children overboard affair
		In August 2004, Michael Scrafton, who had been a senior advisor to Peter Reith, came forward to say that before John Howard confirmed that children had indeed been thrown overboard, he had been informed that this claim was false.
		In particular, Scrafton's claimed that he and Howard had spoken three times on the telephone, but telephone records allowed Howard to maintain that they only spoke twice.
		Scrafton's revelations and the reopening of the inquiry occurred close to the announcement of the 2004 Federal election.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Children_overboard (839 words)

	7.30 Report - 16/08/2004: PM under pressure over children overboard claims
		He was responding to a letter in 'The Australian' newspaper today from Michael Scrafton, the former senior Defence advisor in the then minister Peter Reith's office, detailing three phone conversations he had with the Prime Minister about kids overboard just three days before the election.
		Mr Scrafton says he was prompted to speak out after 43 retired Defence chiefs and senior diplomats had been denigrated for expressing public concern over the issue of truth in government.
		Mr Scrafton also said he was asked by the Prime Minister how this could be so different from the report by the Office of National Assessments that confirmed the children overboard incident.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2004/s1177954.htm (1187 words)

	HINCH.net - The Official Derryn Hinch Website
		The lie detector test taken for Channel Nine by former public servant Mike Scrafton with Laurie Oakes was a TV stunt.
		Scrafton had been seconded to the office of then Minister for Defence Peter Reith, and had those three controversial mobile phone calls with Prime Minister Howard just days before the 2001 election where Scrafton says he told the boss the children overboard stuff just did not happen.
		That Scrafton is so addicted to pornography that when he worked for the Defence Department, paid by you the taxpayer, he would diligently go to work on Saturdays and Sundays.
	www.hinch.net /says_archive04/Aug04/19-8-04.htm (401 words)

	Children overboard scandal. - Vogue Australia Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Now, if Mr Scrafton's evidence is as seems to be the case, then the Prime Minister has misled and the Prime Minister clearly knows this which is why he has gone through and his myrmidons have gone through a process of obfuscation all day today.
		KIM BEAZLEY: Not from any conversation with Mr Scrafton, nor from any conversation with somebody whom, to my knowledge, knew Mr Scrafton well, but it seemed to be me there were lots of rumours and innuendos of a reasonably well-founded character that were floating around at the time, but only just that, floating around.
		You also asked specifically whether Mr Scrafton had told the Prime Minister that night that the photographs were not of children who had been thrown into the water as the Government had claimed.
	forums.vogue.com.au /showthread.php?t=22321 (1918 words)

	ABCwatch
		The tawdry stunt that began with Mike Scrafton's letter to The Australian accusing the Prime Minister of deliberately misleading the nation over the kids overboard affair has come to its inevitably tawdry conclusion.
		The Labor majority's sole basis for accepting the Scrafton claims are the reports of others to whom he passed on accounts of his telephone conversations with the PM during a well-lubricated dinner with his girl-friend.
		The Committee's supine acceptance, at face value, of Scrafton's explanation of his deliberate lies to the earlier Bryant enquiry into the same accusations against Howard is equally risible.
	www.abcwatch.blogspot.com (3603 words)

	Scrafton offers to take lie-detector test - National - www.smh.com.au
		Former senior bureaucrat Mike Scrafton, who worked for then Defence Minister Peter Reith before the 2001 election, stood by his claims, saying he clearly recalled telling Mr Howard by telephone on November 7, 2001, that no children were thrown overboard.
		Mr Scrafton has also claimed he told Mr Howard that photographs purported to show the children in the water were taken after the boat had sunk, and that nobody he knew in defence believed any children had been thrown overboard.
		Mr Howard confirmed he had spoken twice to Mr Scrafton on November 7 - three days before the election - but said he was advised only that a video of the incident was inconclusive.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/16/1092508372460.html (656 words)

	John Quiggin: Has anyone asked Costello ?
		Scrafton strikes me as a very competent and professional public servant who deals in the truth as his normal MO. You need a good motive for lying and a good memory.
		Scrafton's MO was to tell only the truth, but be selective according to the circumstances, but sometimes to tell the truth in a way that gave the opposite impression to throw the enquirer off the scent.
		Scrafton has explicitly recognised that Howard may have had other sources of advice, but after he had told Howard that he knew no-one in Defence who believed children had been thrown he expected some equivocation in Howard's statements.
	www.johnquiggin.com /archives/001867.html (6229 words)

	'Overboard' tit for tat continues. 18/08/2004. ABC News Online
		Ms McKenry, the former head of the department's public affairs unit, believes that former adviser Mike Scrafton told Mr Howard there was no evidence to support the children overboard claims three days before the 2001 federal election.
		She says Mr Scrafton rang her the day after he spoke to Mr Howard and relayed their conversation.
		A former senior defence bureacrat has backed comments made by whistleblower Mike Scrafton, that he told John Howard there was no evidence asylum seekers had thrown their children into the sea.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200408/s1179218.htm (540 words)

	John Howard's Press Conference: Asylum Seekers, Defence Photos, Governor-General, South Australian Election [February ...
		I not only spoke to him about the issue of whether he got contrary advice from defence but I also spoke to him about the video, and I also spoke to Scrafton in his office and the reason I spoke to Scrafton was that Scrafton had looked at the video.
		Scrafton was relevant because he was the person designated by Reith to look at the video.
		No my recollection of the conversations I had with Scrafton, the way he described it to me, my recollection is that it was inconclusive and that was the observation I made.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/02-02-19c.shtml (6463 words)

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		I then agreed with Jenny McKenry-and this is on the 11th-that she should immediately contact Michael Scrafton, the senior adviser in Minister Reith's office, to inform him of the misrepresentation.
		Dr Hawke-I think the sequence of events then was that Scrafton asked her for certain information and she emailed that to him later that day, confirming the earlier telephone discussion that they had had.
		Early on 8 November Ms McKenry told me that Mr Scrafton had called to inform her that the government had decided to release the video taken by HMAS Adelaide of the SIEV4 on 7 October.
	sievx.com /downloads/CMI_Transcript_25March_30July.txt (21360 words)

	Michael Scrafton - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Michael Scrafton was a senior public servant in the Australian Department of Defence.
		He retired from the Department of Defence in 2003 and went on to join the Victorian State Public Service.
		Mr Scrafton was a key player in the Children overboard affair that engulfed Australian politics during the 2001 Federal election.
	www.music.us /education/M/Michael-Scrafton.htm (323 words)

	KIRKBRIDE - pafg254 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Michael KIRKBRIDE-6235 about 1549 in Hesket In Forest, Cumberland, England.
		Michaell KIRKEBRID-6237.Michaell married Annus ASKEY-6238 on 25 Jul 1588 in Holme Cultram, Cumberland, England.
		Annus ASKEY-6238.Annus married Michaell KIRKEBRID-6237 on 25 Jul 1588 in Holme Cultram, Cumberland, England.
	www.relia.net /~mhadley/pafg254.htm (268 words)

	Identities of witnesses kept secret by Senate - Election 2004 - www.theage.com.au
		Senator Ray said the committee yesterday heard from former defence public servant Michael Scrafton, and retired defence officials Major General Roger Powell and Commander Michael Noonan.
		Mr Scrafton yesterday stood by his claim that Prime Minister John Howard misled the nation over the children overboard affair, despite government attempts to discredit his story.
		He repeated that he told Mr Howard there was no evidence to support suggestions children were thrown from a crowded refugee boat, that a video of the incident was inconclusive, and that no-one in Defence believed children were thrown into the water.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/09/02/1093939032263.html (315 words)

	Green Left - Cover Story: Dump Howard but trust neither (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The revelations on August 16 by Michael Scrafton, an adviser to former defence minister Peter Reith, that Howard lied about asylum seekers throwing their children into the water, may tip the balance against the government in this election campaign.
		In what he thought was a clever move against Scrafton, Howard arranged for the officers who conducted a 2001 military inquiry into the children overboard incident, Major-General Roger Powell and Commander Mike Noonan, to be interviewed about the evidence Scrafton had given.
		He expected that Scrafton had told this inquiry as little as he had told the departmental inquiry run by Howard’s closest adviser, Max Moore-Wilton.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2004/597/31828 (1617 words)

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		But with key ministers, including Mr Howard, insisting the truth was never passed on to them, a case can be made that officials were exercising executive authority in deciding what to pass on to their ministers and should be held accountable.
		The four advisers most likely to be called are Mike Scrafton, former military adviser to Mr Reith; Ross Hampton, who was Mr Reith's media adviser; Peter Hendy, who was Mr Reith's chief of staff; and Miles Jordana, who remains Mr Howard's adviser on foreign policy.
		Mr Reith is yet to respond to the most recent of three written invitations to give evidence.
	www.angelfire.com /ia3/ironside/925.doc (602 words)

	Articles index started with mi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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	www.kiwipedia.com /mi-index.html (88 words)

	Welcome to Tony Kevin's Home Page
		Like former Office of National Assessments analyst Andrew Wilkie and Michael Scrafton, a former advisor to then defence minister Peter Reith, Kevin received the sort of treatment common to whistleblowers who lift the lid on government secrets which have the potential to do great damage.
		The absence of whistleblowers could equally point to the depth of the cover-up, and the absence of individuals with the courage necessary to break ranks and come forward with what Australian authorities really knew.
		He certainly wasn't going to do it while he was still employed in the public service, partly because of intimidation by his superiors, partly to protect his career, but also because he didn't think it was appropriate to do so.
	www.tonykevin.com /BehindTheSinking.html (1204 words)

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		Prefatory note by the editor, William Michael Rossetti.
		Presentation copy of William Michael Rossetti to his daughter Olivia Agresti, Oct. 1903.
		This work has prefatory essays in Italian by A. Agresti which discuss the art of Dante Gabriele Rossetti as well as the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
	www.asu.edu /lib/speccoll/prb/prb_d.htm (614 words)

	John Quiggin: Monday Message Board
		michael, that was very good indeed so good any further comment is made redundant.
		If the Yanks bring on a blue in an election campaign Iron Mark can go on and on about he was right and how only he stands up for Australia whilst howard stands up for the Yanks.
		Both McKitrick and Michaels practise the worst sort of ideologically (or, in Michaels' case, financially) driven, politically correct science - easily as bad as, say, David Suzuki.
	www.johnquiggin.com /archives/001861.html (3704 words)

	Amazon.com: "West Scrafton": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To be exact, in the tiny village of West Scrafton.
		were secreted away from the thousands of prying eyes but, in 1978, he acquired a cottage in the village of West Scrafton - a cluster of grey stone houses and farms,...
		Taylor Bradford local gray stone, and it stood on top of the moors in Coverdale, above the picturesque village of West Scrafton, near Coverham.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/West-Scrafton (497 words)

	Slattsnews » 2004 » September
		Brandis, it appears, has also done a slick job this afternoon on Scrafton’s questionable allegations.
		JANET ALBRECHTSEN today adroitly applies the blowtorch to a mob of tax-grubbing unionists.
		NewsMax exposes USA Today’s hypocrisy in giving conservative commentator Ann Coulter the boot from covering the Democrats convention, while giving press credentials to Michael Moore so he could aggravate participants of the Republican National Convention.
	www.slattsnews.observationdeck.org /?m=20040901 (767 words)

	09-22-2000 - Local HS Football Leaders
		Michael Sorg, Manchester 26 64 467 2 3
		Jared Scrafton, Warsaw 25 61 309 3 3
		Jared Scrafton, Warsaw 3 2 0 0 22
	www.timeswrsw.com /S0922007.HTM (168 words)

	The 10 years under John Howard's govt has been...
		Surely Bickell must be aware that after having made this statement, Howard went ahead and campaigned and won an election on the issue.
		At its highest it appears that a public servant, Michael Scrafton, rang John Howard two days out from a federal election saying he thought there may be some doubt as to whether the children were thrown overboard and Howard didn't make any further public statement as a result of what Scrafton had said.
		It is common ground on all sides that there was credible intelligence of the existence of the WMD, but the important point which Bickell seems unable to grasp is that Howard did not go to war primarily to help the US or even Iraq.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /eblah/m-1141261537 (1662 words)

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