Susie,
That's a poor excuse, suggesting that my thoughts are disgusting, yet making no meaningful response.
The boat sank 50-100m of the beach, many children died, yet only young and middle aged men survived. I think a few questions need to be asked. Like I said, if the same situation would have happened to an Australian boat 100m of sure, you can bet that many people would have been questioning the adults as to how many children they tried to help.
Surely if each adult had jus thelped one child.

It is actually disgusting that you Susie try to suppress debate on thsi topic, by suggesting the very thought of it is disgusting.
You are the disgusting one Susie, who tries to bully others in to your own PC views \, and suppressing any debate.
Most people have had enough of people like you.

Girls or rather old women,
A reasonably decent, sober thinking person would have reacted totally different. Ask anyone who has been in war zones & they will tell you how innocent little children have been exploited in the most inhumane manner. Now if you had replied that my comments weren't beyond the realm of possibility no matter how far fetched then it would identify you as thinkers. You chose to be seen as the opposite.
I just heard on the radio that the wreck occurred within 50 metres off the beach. Now, I have plenty experience in boats & I do not wish to judge without knowing the facts. Even that close to a beach a crew may not have any control other than throwing an anchor.
But that's not what got you going is it ? You got your bloomers in a twist because of my drawing attention to a rather bad possibility but a possibility nevertheless. Surely by now you must accept that those people try ANYTHING to get here. They are fully aware that westerners in general are suckers for compassion.

After some here like dear Old Tin of Fruit Poirot have gone on and on about Indonesia's sovereignty in support of its Foreign minister's slanted comments earlier, they have no credibility at all demanding that the Australian navy steam into Indonesian waters to rescue an Indonesian flagged vessel with an Indonesian captain and crew that was operating dangerously and founded 50 metres off an Indonesian beach.

<Asylum seeker boat sank 50 metres off Indonesian shore, survivors say

Survivors from an asylum seeker boat that sank off Indonesia say the boat returned to land after it hit trouble in rough seas and sank only 50 metres from the shore.

About 50 people are either missing or dead, 30 of them understood to be children, after the boat sank off Agrabinta, a remote area of the coast off the Cianjur region of west Java after it got into trouble on Thursday>

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-29/asylum-seeker-boat-sank-50-metres-off-indonesian-shore/4987412

Any other nation would immediately charge the captain and crew with maritime offences and go looking for the criminals behind the venture.

However Dear Old Tin of Fruit and the Grrls only have eyes for an opportunity to bag Australia, Australians and the Australian Navy.

Another suppository of wisdom from a poster who
probably considers a pot belly as a status symbol
and whose only flair would be in his nostrils. ;-)

Foxy,
Your intelligence re finding a solution to a very tragic problem is out-shining all others. You must be feeling incredibly proud.

The problem is of course that first Rudd, then Gillard & the rest of Labor trained the providers of boats, & the illegal immigrants who ride them, that they could get away with anything.

Boats could be absolute tubs, & overloaded 300% when they only have to get a few miles off shore, then call the Oz navy to come & get them.

Labor have been doing this for years. It was a good ploy for them, if not the people of Oz, it bought enough western Sydney votes to save a few seats. Who cared if a few drowned, Ruddy sure didn't.

Our patrol boats are falling apart, having been run into the ground on this Labor taxi service. Boats meant for light fast patrol duties are near torn apart after being used as tugs, towing these boats & their garbage cargos to Christmas Island.

So ladies, now & until Abbotts new policies are digested & understood by boat people & boat suppliers alike, every death can still be laid right at the feet of the disgusting man who instigated it, Kevin Rudd.

No amount of posturing, blathering or spinning can change the simple fact. Billions of dollars & thousands of lives lost is all down to that disgusting excuse for a man.