Front page quotes around the word cleared in reference to the navy being held accountable for the boat that crashed into the rocks. Really? The incident occurred in high seas on the side of the island where there was no landing. For some reason the writers seem to believe that the navy is somehow tracking all wooden boats departing from Indonesia heading for Australian shores. Given the limited resources it is not surprising that a boat can arrive at the jetty before being detected. Somehow however the boat that crashed on the rocks were supposed to have been detected and saved. The fault here lies with the Indonesian captain not the Australian Navy. Move on to page 2 and there is an emotive story from one of the relatives already on Christmas Island.Yes this is an emotive issue that as usual the underlying issue of the business of entering Australia by bypassing the normal process, often by people who are not asylum seekers, is ignored.
Page 12. Not written by any below could journalists that the now almost mandatorily Israel bashing article. The tiniest amount of research will discover that the building on the East Bank is well within both international law and previous agreements. One day after giving over land Israel shelled, or more accurately rocketed. After this happened they are still criticised for not giving up high ground from where this could happen, or would happen again.
Letters to the Editor. Let from John Sandilands. This is nothing more than a Coalition bashing letter and offers nothing to the debate. The same from John Murphy and John Sumner but for different reasons.
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