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AUSSAR 2013/3821
This page contains links to news articles, government statements and other documents concerning the unnamed asylum seeker vessel that capsized close to Christmas Island between 5 and 7 June 2013 with the loss of an estimated 60 lives. (This vessel is known by the AMSA incident number AUSSAR 2013/3821. It is not known if it has been allocated a SIEV number).
Photo: Australian Customs &
Border Protection
OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT & AGENCIES MEDIA STATEMENTS, NOTICES & REVIEWS
- Pan-Pan and May Day Notices, AMSA, 7 - 8 June 2013
- Search and Rescue Operation near Christmas Island, Australian Customs & Border Protection Service, 8 June 2013
- Press Conference with Minister Jason Clare & Rear Admiral David Johnston RAN, 9 June 2013
- Search and rescue operation west of Christmas Island Final update , Australian Customs & Border Protection Service, 10 June 2013
- Response to Sun-Herald Article 28 July 2013, AMSA, 28 July 2013
- Clarification by Fairfax Media on July 28 Report, AMSA, 5 August 2013
- Internal Review Report, Customs & Border Protection, December 2013
- Timeline, Customs & Border Protection, December 2013
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MEDIA COVERAGE
- Nine suspected asylum seekers found dead off Christmas Island, ABC, 8 June 2013
- Navy searching off Christmas Island for foundered asylum-seeker boat ~ AFP, 8 June 2013
- Asylum seeker search: no survivors from sunken asylum boat near Christmas Island ~ AM, 10 June 2013
- Drowned asylum seekers left in the water believed to be Afghan Hazaras ~ avapress.com, 11 June 2013
- No legal obligation to recover asylum seeker bodies ~ PM, 10 June 2013
- Paris Aristotle It is time all sides work together to halt needless asylum seeker drownings ~ Age, 12 June 2013
- Helen Davidson, Customs can't be sure of ultimate fate of asylum boat that vanished in June
, Guardian, 26 December 2013
- Bianca Hall, Customs and Border Protection Service raises doubt on asylum-seeker boat rescue response, SMH, 22 December 2013
- Trevor Grant, Don't let the sea take any more, New Matilda, 12 June 2013
- Jess Hill, Asylum seekers: Drowning on our watch, ABC, Background Briefing, 1 September 2013 (audio)
- Marg Hutton, Another avoidable tragedy on our doorstep, sievx.com (website commentary) 11 June 2013
- Marg Hutton, Government should release the aerial surveillance photos, sievx.com (website commentary) 13 June 2013
- Judith Ireland, Slow rescue bid 'costs lives', Age, 10 June 2013
- Judith Ireland, Bodies of drowned asylum seekers left in the water, Age, 10 June 2013
- Gemma Jones & Caroline Marcus, Lives lost in asylum seeker boat mystery, Perth Now, 8 June 2013
- Tony Kevin on More asylum seeker deaths, more unanswered questions ~ Eureka Street, 10 June 2013
- Natalie O'Brien & Michael Bachelard, Nine asylum seekers believed to have drowned, SMH, 8 June 2013
- Natalie O'Brien, Search underway for troubled asylum seeker boat, SMH, 8 June 2013
- Natalie O'Brien, Rescue delays key to boat fatalities, Age, 28 July 2013
- Natalie O'Brien, Pleas fail to avert boats tragedy, SMH, 1 September 2013
- Wilson & Maley, Death toll rises as smugglers lift tempo, Aus, 10 June 2013
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DOCUMENTS RELEASED UNDER FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOI)
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