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	'PM told Tampa actions suspect' \| NEWS.com.au
		PRIME Minister John Howard decided to turn away the Tampa freighter, carrying more than 400 asylum seekers, despite receiving advice his decision could be in breach of international law, his new biography reveals.
		But the Tampa was ordered not to enter Australian waters, then seized by authorities before it docked at Christmas Island and the asylum seekers were taken aboard an Australian navy vessel.
		Channel 9 reported yesterday that leaked passages from an unauthorised biography of Mr Howard reveal he decided to turn the Tampa away despite initial advice from the attorney-general's department that it could be a breach of international law.
	www.news.com.au /story/0,,22117903-421,00.html (728 words)

	MV Tampa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The MV Tampa is a Norwegian cargo ship that was at the center of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway, and Indonesia off the coast of Christmas Island.
		The refugees from the Tampa were loaded onto a Royal Australian Navy vessel, HMAS Manoora.
		The crew of the Tampa received the Nansen Refugee Award for 2002 from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for their efforts to follow international principles of saving people in distress at sea, despite repeated threats of imprisonment and confiscation of the ship from the Australian government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MS_Tampa (2095 words)

	MV Tampa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the federal election narrowly following the arrival of the Tampa, the Liberal Party campaigned vigorously on the issue, with John Howard's statement "we decide who comes into this country and the circumstances in which they come" acting as the party's de facto election slogan.
		Rallies in support of the Tampa asylum seekers, as well as others interned in detention centres in (additional info and facts about Woomera) Woomera and elsewhere, occurred around the country.
		In 2004 following the war in (A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south) Afghanistan and (additional info and facts about invasion of Iraq) invasion of Iraq the New Zealand government began to reunite their families.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mv/mv_tampa1.htm (1870 words)

	Tampa Affair: How the UN blocked East Timor solution
		Downer's request to park the Tampa people in one of the refugee camps was passed swiftly to Kofi Annan's office in New York.
		The UN feared the Tampa crisis would see the return of the terrible practice of "pushing off" that began in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
		By this time the Tampa people, plus another couple of hundred picked up from Ashmore Reef, were on their way to Nauru on HMAS Manoora.
	www.etan.org /et2001c/october/14-20/22tampa.htm (2056 words)

	Escort Tampa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		March 1 - Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of escort tampa Agriculture, under the George H. Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry is arrested escort sacramento for drug possession in an FBI sting.
		Within escort tampa days of his return, he is murdered along with his brother, father, sister and her children.
		Snyder is fired by escort tampa CBS a day after publicly stating that African Americans had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery.
	escort.funhosts.com /escort/tampa.html (600 words)

	Encyclopedia: Transnational issues of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Its first major independent foreign policy action was to conclude an agreement in 1944 with New Zealand dealing with the security, welfare, and advancement of the people of the independent territories of the Pacific (the ANZAC pact).
		Tampa affair, which is named after the MV Tampa, a Norwegian cargo ship which was at the center of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway and Indonesia off the coast of Christmas Island in August 2001.
		The children overboard affair in which senior ministers including Prime Minister John Howard claimed that asylum seekers on board a boat off Christmas Island known as SIEV-4 in October 2001 had deliberately thrown their children into the water in an attempt to secure rescue.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Transnational-issues-of-Australia (752 words)

	Norway involves IMO in 'Tampa' affair
		Norway's Foreign Minister Thorbjørn Jagland has written to the International Maritime Organisation to say Australia is urging the Tampa to breach international rules by continuing its voyage laden down with passengers.
		The Minister said the Tampa was not seaworthy to continue sailing with at least 438 boat people on board in addition to her crew.
		He pointed out that the cargo ship was not a passenger vessel, not equipped to carry passengers and was not allowed to do so according to national and international regulations.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article187865.ece?service=print (238 words)

	Howard rejected Tampa advice - National - smh.com.au
		THE Tampa was stopped at sea by John Howard in the teeth of legal advice from the highest levels of the Attorney-General's department that nothing could be done to prevent the Norwegian ship carrying 438 rescued asylum seekers from entering Australian waters.
		The biography essentially accuses Mr Howard of bringing on the Tampa crisis to stymie One Nation.
		That night the master of the Tampa, Captain Arne Rinnan, was threatened with prosecution as a people smuggler if he did not turn his ship around and head for Indonesia.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/howard-rejected-tampa-advice/2007/07/22/1185042950379.html (743 words)

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		The passengers on the Tampa were within the jurisdiction of Australian in the territorial sea.
		One of the many ironies of the Tampa Affair, and the related issue of the detention of unlawful asylum seekers in Australia, is that the British High Court ruled on the 7th September 2001 that the detention of Iraqi Kurds, who were asylum seekers and illegal immigrants at the Oakington Reception Center, was unlawful.
		Of immediate relevance to the Tampa Affair is the provision that no person be deprived of their liberty “except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedures as are established by law”.
	www.law.unimelb.edu.au /news/conf-sem/tampa/gilliantriggs.doc (2934 words)

	Australia mounts military operation to expel Tampa refugees
		Having failed in its earlier efforts to prevent the Tampa from entering Australian territory and to enact legislation allowing it to physically remove the ship, the government was nevertheless determined to score a political victory by not permitting the refugees to set foot on Australian soil.
		As the Tampa and Manoora departed from the island, its residents ignited fireworks in a display of solidarity with the Norwegian vessel’s crew and the refugees.
		The Liberal-National Party Coalition government is attempting to use the Tampa affair to mount a nationalist diversion from widespread discontent with its economic and social policies.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/sep2001/tamp-s05.shtml (1815 words)

	CNN.com - Fresh spy claims over Tampa affair - August 26, 2002
		This day last year, the Australian government denied entry to Australian waters for a Norwegian-flagged freighter, MV Tampa, which was carrying 433 asylum seekers who had been rescued from a sinking ferry bound for Australia.
		Arguing the boatpeople should have been taken to the nearest Indonesian port, not Australian territory, the conservative government of Prime Minister John Howard arranged for the asylum seekers to be transferred to the Pacific Island nation of Nauru to have their claims for refugee status processed by the United Nations.
		The Tampa decision angered the Norwegian and Indonesian governments, with accusations flying that Australia was using the situation to score domestic political points.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/25/australia.tampa (603 words)

	disLEXia: Do, 14. Feb 2002
		A controversy followed on whether Australia would be obliged to give the 'Tampa' harbour and accept said refugees.
		Hill has given assurances that the breach was not a major one, but without any information on the nature of the breach confirming that is another matter...
		Since the Tampa crisis played a very major role in the resurrection of the Howard government's political fortunes, quite likely altering the outcome of last year's federal election, the possibility of illegally-obtained intercepts being used for political ends is not being taken lightly by anybody (except, perhaps, that government...)
	radio.weblogs.com /0112292/2002/02/14.html (228 words)

	Migration News
		Some children had gone into the water with life jackets as the ship was turned away from Australia, and the government said that they were "thrown overboard" in the hope that their rescue would lead to the Iraqis being allowed to land in Australia.
		The Australian Defense Ministry destroyed photographs of the Tampa affair so that they could not be leaked to the news media.
		However, of the 131 migrants from the Tampa sent to New Zealand, 130 were found to be refugees.
	migration.ucdavis.edu /mn/comments.php?id=2632_0_5_0_C (906 words)

	The Hindu : Humanity denied
		Two polls conducted in the wake of the ``Tampa'' affair have shown that 77 per cent of all Australians support the decision not to allow the refugees in and that the Liberal coalition has inched closer to Labour in terms of support.
		For, first and foremost, the ``Tampa'' affair is all about the wretched of the earth.
		In the case of the ``Tampa'', the Australian position is a violation of the 1951 U.N. Convention on Refugees, according to groups such as Amnesty International.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2001/09/09/stories/05091347.htm (679 words)

	Immigrants' Successes Highlight Benefits Of Cultural Diversity - from TBO.com
		It's a talisman of the Tampa of old, when cigar factories seemed to stand on almost every block of Ybor and West Tampa.
		To be sure, the love affair between Tampa and Latins still pulses through the bodegas, cafes and markets that line the avenue, north to south.
		This is part of what economic development people have in mind when they speak of Tampa's diversity becoming a springboard for a better a the city's economic future, perhaps turning it one day into an international trade gateway.
	news.tbo.com /news/MGB65KN8AZD.html (1124 words)

	Binoy Kampmark argues that Australia had no legal right to refuse to process the asylum seekers on the MV Tampa - On ...
		The Tampa refugees were subsequently placed on the HMAS Manoora and taken to Nauru to be processed, a decision challenged by the Victorian Civil Liberties Association who requested that the Tampa refugees be processed in Australia.
		The act of classifying the Tampa refugees as illegal and duly transferring them to Nauru independently of the Migration Act was Parliament’s role.
		On a domestic level, it is questionable whether the executive could detain and expel the Tampa refugees from Australian territory as the law of migration was already regulated by Parliament.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=1588 (1375 words)

	Major Blames Inquiries On Affair - from Tampa Bay Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TAMPA - Sheriff's Maj. Rene ``Rocky'' Rodriguez's affair with the estranged wife of a Tampa millionaire was not a well-kept secret.
		Rodriguez also is a key figure in a sweeping federal and state corruption investigation, detailed Dec. 22 in the Tribune, and in a Tampa police investigation into the death of his close friend, millionaire Charles D. ``Buddy'' Edwards.
		Ron Russo, her attorney, portrays Beth Basham as the primary caregiver, raising the children while Bob Basham built his fortune through the steakhouse chain and as a member of a group of minority owners of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
	news.tbo.com /news/MGAJMM237CD.html (1312 words)

	Tampa crisis sparks furore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Inevitably, comparisons have been drawn between the Tampa affair and the case of the St. Louis in 1939.
		The Tampa case has highlighted the lengths to which a xenophobic government is prepared to go to maintain racial "purity".
		Ironically, while the Tampa was lying off Christmas Island, the Prime Minister attended a ceremony commemorating the invention of the Australian flag at the site of the first federal parliament in Melbourne.
	www.grenzeloos.org /artikel/viewartikel.php/id/242.html (1405 words)

	Tigers' Comeback Wears Out Jackets: From The Tampa Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TAMPA - This was Middleton senior Quentin Williams' first Blake-Middleton game -- his first taste of Tampa's most storied high-school rivalry.
		And he will have his own place in the history books that chronicle this annual affair pitting Tampa's two historically fl high schools.
		But for one night, it was all about the old-school rivalry in Tampa.
	www.tampatrib.com /MGBLKE8EZDE.html (705 words)

	A Family Affair: The Rubells' passion for collecting art is on display at TMA.: Features: Arts: Creative Loafing Tampa
		Tampa Museum of Art, 600 N. Ashley Drive, Tampa, 813-274-8130, tampamuseum.com.
		More than 40 years later, the Rubells' passion is a family affair that includes their adult children, Jennifer and Jason.
		Today, a visit to Miami's Wynwood art district wouldn't be complete without a stop at the Rubell Family Collection (RFC), a 45,000-square-foot former DEA warehouse converted to a sleek art space, complete with glass-paneled research library and over two dozen galleries.
	tampa.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=233889 (1095 words)

	Official Records : Page 391 \| Chapter XLVII. AFFAIR AT TAMPA, FLA.
		The remainder were delayed to wait for the return of the boats from the Honduras.
		As the leading ones entered the river and I was about to embark the remainder of the troops, a report came from the pickets that the enemy was collecting about 5 miles away to make a dash into Tampa.
		To provide for such a course the prisoners were put into the first boats and ordered to drop down the river to a proper distance from land.
	ehistory.osu.edu /uscw/library/or/065/0391.cfm (616 words)

	O'Pinions to go Online - Article
		Were he not term-limited, Greco would have the track record -- the Steve LaBrake affair, THAP (Tampa-Hillsborough Action Plan) mismanagement and allegations of cronyism notwithstanding -- to run on and win on again.
		Should the Tampa Bay Lightning leave or private-sector interest in downtown residential wane or the cultural arts district disappoint or controversy ensue over who's named fire or police chief, all bets could be off.
		In his concession speech, Sanchez again underscored his commitment to Tampa and more than hinted that the political experience he gained in the mayoral campaign will be practically applied down the road.
	opinionstogoonline.com /read.asp?ArtId=328 (773 words)

	Your latest letters on the 'Tampa' affair
		The whole dispute surrounds the question of whether the Tampa was under Australian jurisdiction when it entered the territorial waters at Christmas Island.
		I would like to compliment the behaviour of the Norwegian Government, the owners of the MV Tampa and the captain of the ship throughout this sorry affair.
		It was the thanklessness of the shipwrecked people plus the weakness of the Tampa's captain in allowing these same people, whom he had just saved from a terrible fate, to take over his ship and that placed the Australian government in a terrible predicament.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article188702.ece?service=print (2728 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		It adopted the "Pacific solution" after it refused to allow the Tampa, which had rescued 433 boat people from a sinking Indonesian ferry, to dock in Australia, where 2,000 asylum seekers are already in detention camps.
		Prior to the Tampa affair, a mandatory detention policy for boat people was already being enforced.
		Himself a member of the press, as a presenter for regional current affairs programs for Radio Australia and Radio National, he does not shy away from criticizing the press for their often biased reporting on the issue.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20020804.G06 (978 words)

	Knees-up brings a whole new dimension to detention - Arts - www.smh.com.au
		Moves are afoot to do a one-hour "Gilbert and Sullivan punk rock opera TV extravaganza" on the controversial Tampa affair.
		It will have SAS soldiers tap-dancing on the deck of the Tampa, a heroic Norwegian Captain Arne Rinnan having a torrid love affair with a beautiful journalist who parachutes in, real live singing refugees and a dastardly manipulative prime minister.
		Tampa became the symbol for Mr Howard's strong stance against illegal arrivals in the 2001 election campaign after he refused to allow Captain Rinnan to land shipwrecked refugees on Christmas Island.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/14/1076548275535.html (453 words)

	News of the Tampa Bay area
		An $8.5-million estate in the Avila community of Tampa will be auctioned, along with fancy paintings and furniture.
		Tampa pays couple for damage to their home
		An appeals court's ruling will let jurors determine if Tampa police used excessive force in a struggle that left a man comatose.
	www.sptimes.com /2003archive/07/19/Hillsborough.shtml (302 words)

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