<<"Australia failed to send help">>

We can expect this in truck loads.Illegal immigration industry bods ain't going give up their plush seats on the gravy train without a fight.

PS: <<The latest one I see today in The Australian is "Australia failed to send help">> kinda shows-up the old lefty lie about the Murdoch press, ay!

SM, we would know what Abbott and his cronies are up on asylum seekers it all a "big secret" turn back the boats, become buy the boats which then morphed into hide the boats. It was shocking how Abbott didn't even offer condolences at the sad deaths of mostly children trying to make their way to Australia for a better life. I wounder if he would take the same attitude if a boat load of Americans were to drown, I think not.

"the new competent government" did someone, somewhere have an election besides Australia and vote in a competent government, we didn't in Oz, we got wombats.
Have you checked out that "Minister" that looks and sounds like Aarnie Schwarzenegger, I thought all the neanderthals were extinct, seems not there's one still running around Canberra. if he's a minister imagine what's on the back bench, orangutans...gee that's unkind to orangutans.

your own blind hatred of all people who don't have the same rigid views as you.
Suseonline,
That statement is a much clearer indication of YOUR hatred of all people who don't have the same rigid views as you.
I am interested in protecting Australia unlike you. The more you write the more it becomes obvious that you have a vested interest in people smuggling. You're not concerned about children drowning, you're encouraging more to come here & my guess is you're a closet fundamentalist like that white widow from Kenya. No sober thinking person in their right frame of mind jeopardises the lives of children in order to achieve some perverse satisfaction of seeing their country invaded at the cost of childrens' lives. Only very, very sick people do that.

The PM simply chooses not to assign any responsibility or guilt to Australia or his government for the misfortunes and stupidity of others encouraging criminal neglect.
I bet the bloke who rang Australia was the smuggler captain and the number was on speed dial.
The seaman's unions of Australia, US and Britain in particular would not allow such unseaworthy vessels to leave the harbors why the do the Indonesian allow such stupidity?

Paul,

Labor and the Greens are the ones that don't care about children drowning. They created the trade in human trafficking that has killed nearly 2000 people in the last 5 years.

If anyone has read the papers, the Australian navy has been stretched with several "rescues" in Indonesian waters just yesterday. With boats crying wolf to get the Australian water taxi service, the rescue service has been stretched to the limit. It was only a matter of time before Labor's stupid policy would lead to a real rescue falling between the cracks. How many women and children will labor's moronic policy have to kill before the left whingers realize that saving lives means stopping the boats.

For the first time in 6 years Australia has a competent PM that realizes that to get things done he does not need to get everyone's approval, that there will be some huffing and puffing, but the boats will stop, and women and children will stop dying.

One other point needs mentioning. The boat apparently sank only 50-100m from shore. Most of the survivors seem to be young/middle aged men. Many of the dead are children. Why were not those who could swim helping those ho could not?
I know if an Australian boat sank off a beach in Australia and all the adults survived and the children didn't, there would be many people including the media asking very serious questions about the possible conduct of those adults.