A very thorough and well researched article.

What can we do to ensure that a full judicial enquiry is set up to investigate this disaster?

Ellen Goodman

I think an important question here is 'Does anyone care'?

Look Howard paid the price at the ballot box, a new government in power, lets just get on with more immediate problems. Its the same obsession with percieved past slights that is holding back so many areas of progress in the world.

I'm also very sceptical of long running enquiries that cost millions and get nowhere.

Constantly digging up old graves isnt going to help anyone.

Just breathe, let all the moral outrage go, and get on with your life.

Its daunting to think we allow Emma and her ilk to vote and breed.

If these idiots ever get an inquiry into the sinking of the Siev X I will definately apply for a grant to find why womens libido drops after marriage. There are 2 schools of thought here, one is that the wedding band cuts the blood supply to the libido and the other is to do with a conspiracy involving something in wedding cake.

The Siev X sailed from INDONESIA, it was an INDONESIAN vessel, it had an INDONESIAN crew, it sank either in or near INDONESIAN waters, the area for search and rescue is responsibility of INDONESIA, any load limits on vessels there is the responsibility of INDONESIA. Therefore any inquiry relating to the incident is the responsibility of INDONESIA. No australians were on board or lost their lives.

It was not the first Siev to sink. Remmber the Tampa picked up 300 or so from a sinking boat. Wern't they lucky that Tampa was in area?

60 nautical miles from indonesia is still a bloody long way from australia and we should keep our noses out of indonesias business.

Go and ask INDONESIA nicely to hold an inquiry. Do not keep asking us to waste taxpayers money on matters that are NONE OF OUR CONCERN.

Not much to say about this out-of-date subject except that, if people obviously trying to enter Australia illegally perish in the attempt, there is no way that Australia has any role to play.

Calling for an inquiry is even sillier now than it was at the time of the the event, and Austalian taxpayers should be very angry that it should even be suggested that they pay for something which has absolutely nothing to do with them or their country.

If this author is "most passionate about many issues relating to social injustice", she should find something closer to home to meddle in - if meddle she must - and not presume that other people share her concern about a bunch of foreigners who paid people smugglers to get them into Australia illegally and lost.

Well for me, I'd like an inquiry. This isn't ancient history. It's recent, the players in this matter are still very much to the forefront of policing and the Public Service. We still have police in Indonesia and in other parts of the world.

I listened to a lot of the evidence in the Children Overboard Inquiry. Mick Kelty said he could not answer a number of the Senators questions due to 'operational reasons'. I'd like to know, how much time needs to pass, before things aren't 'operational', and the Australian people can know what was being done, as we were told, in our interest. As an Australian, I'd like to know what is being done by my police force when overseas.

There are families who have been devestated by the sinking living in Australia. They deserve this information to come out as well.

Also we learn from history. If there were failings in how we responded to this situation, it should be known so we can improve on things. Sticking it all under a rug just leads to more speculation, and a continued bleeding from wounds.

Banjo I find you very offensive. I suspect being near you would make any healthy woman's libido disappear.

Is there a time limit on wrongs? Those of you who suggest we should just forget about it would not feel that way if it were one of your own but would be screaming for revenge. The fact that these were desperate strangers to our country does not make our duty of care any less.

I think we should know what happened and it is important if australia is to stay a decent country and not one run by bigots and rednecks

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