The Wire

Greens senator Kerry Nettle is claiming that immigration laws are stopping sailors from doing what sailors have always done as a point of honour – rescue fellow sailors who are in trouble. Indonesian people including ten children have now been taken to Christmas Island after quite an adventure – their boat was in trouble when it was first sighted by a civilian vessel in the waters off Christmas Island but that vessel had to wait for the Navy and in the process of the final rescue the people being rescued accidentally ended up in the water.