- Sinking of the Malu Sara -

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  • Department gets $242k fine over Malu Sara
    03.12.2010
    By: TONY KOCH THE Federal Court has slapped the Immigration Department with the maximum fine of $242,000 after finding it breached its duty of care to five people who died on a government launch in the Torres Strait five years ago. The... read more
  • Torres Strait deaths `totally avoidable'
    25.09.2009
    By: Tony Koch CRUCIAL evidence on the 2005 sinking of the immigration vessel Malu Sara in the Torres Strait, with the loss of all five on board, has forced the Australian Transport Safety Bureau to acknowledge a failure by rescue authorities... read more
  • Family denied aid after boat tragedy
    03.09.2009
    By: Tony Koch A TORRES Strait Islander who has to look after his four grandchildren because their mother died when an Immigration Department vessel sank in 2005 has been refused government financial help because his request is outside the... read more
  • Family denied aid after boat tragedy
    03.09.2009
    By: Tony Koch A TORRES Strait Islander who has to look after his four grandchildren because their mother died when an Immigration Department vessel sank in 2005 has been refused government financial help because his request is outside the... read more
  • What if the victims had been white?
    13.02.2009
    COMMENT THE families and friends of the five people who perished when the Immigration Department vessel Malu Sara sank off Badu Island are far from satisfied with the findings handed down yesterday by Coroner Michael Barnes. The two officers against... read more
  • Boat builder blamed for deaths - Malu Sara
    28.06.2008
    MANSLAUGHTER charges have been recommended against the designer and builder of an Immigration Department patrol boat that sank in the Torres Strait in October 2005 with the loss of all five people on board. Queensland Coroner Michael Barnes is expected... read more
  • Death boat log of search queried
    11.05.2007
    THE Immigration Department has questioned the veracity of entries in Queensland Police logs of its search for the Malu Sara, which sank in the Torres Strait in 2005, killing five. Police have been ordered to provide copies of any handwritten notes and... read more
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