re: children thrown overboard, how the press lies!
Whether or not there is any truth is this "new info" - (years and years later - no political motivation there huh???)
....regardless.....
Today the headlines below read AS IF IT IS FACT!?!?!
Not alllegedly.... or possible...or one man's view....
...but FACT
No standards but circulation
PM knew truth about asylum ship By Patrick Walters August 16, 2004
A CENTRAL figure in the children overboard affair has broken a three-year silence, directly contradicting John Howard's election eve statements of November 2001 that children had been thrown from an asylum-seeker vessel the previous month.
Happy refugee children pictured on board HMAS Adelaide after being rescued from the sinking Siev 4
Mike Scrafton, at the time senior adviser to then defence minister Peter Reith, in three telephone conversations with the Prime Minister on the evening of November 7, 2001, conveyed his view that the children overboard claim was inaccurate.
