Extracted from Senate Notice Paper
14 March 2005

431 Senator Brown: To ask the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs - With reference to the sinking of the boat known as SIEV X:

(1) Will the Minister now release the list of names of people who are thought to have drowned.

(2) How many queries has the Government had from people seeking the names of persons thought to have been on board: (a) from within Australia; and (b) from outside Australia.

(3) If the list is not to be released: (a) what are the precise reasons; and (b) if one reason is that release of the list would endanger an informant, in what way.

432 Senator Brown: To ask the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs - With reference to the sinking of the boat known as SIEV X: Is there an inquiry or investigation in progress; if so: (a) how many people are involved in the inquiry; and (b) what results have been forthcoming in the past year.

Back to sievx.com