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Maritime Safety Information current at 240700 UTC JUL 13

Issued by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC Australia)

Part 1. Distress, Urgency, CQ and Safety Messages:

MAYDAY RELAY
FM RCC AUSTRALIA 240415Z JUL 2013 AUSSAR 2013/5005
INDIAN OCEAN NORTHERN PART CHART AUS 4071 
A WOODEN ASYLUM SEEKER VESSEL WITH 70 POB HAS BEEN REPORTED TAKING ON WATER IN POSITION 09-08.38S 106-02.30E AT 240400UTC 
VESSELS WITHIN 6HRS REPORT BEST ETA AND INTENTIONS TO THIS STATION OR RCC AUSTRALIA VIA TELEPHONE +61262306811 INMARSAT THROUGH LES BURUM (POR 212,IOR 312) SPECIAL ACCESS CODE (SAC) 39, HF DSC 005030001, EMAIL: [email protected] OR FAX +61 2 6230 6868.
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PAN PAN
FM RCC AUSTRALIA 231303Z JUL 2013 AUSSAR 2013/4990
NORTHERN INDIAN OCEAN

A) SRI LANKAN FISHING VESSEL SAVIN PUTHA WITH 65 POB REPORTED DISABLED AND ADRIFT IN POSITION 04-40N 084-40E AT 231105 UTC.

B) ANY VESSEL ABLE TO RENDER ASSISTANCE REPORT ETA AND INTENTIONS TO MRCC COLOMBO VIA TELEPHONE +941 1242 1151 OR +941 1244 5368, EMAIL: [email protected] OR [email protected] OR BY FAX +941 1244 1454.
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PAN PAN
FM RCC AUSTRALIA 231635Z JUL 2013 AUSSAR 2013/4993
INDIAN OCEAN NORTHERN PART CHART AUS 4071

A) REFUGEE VESSEL REPORTED IN DIFFICULTY IN POSITION 08-13.80 S 105-06.80 E AT 231534 UTC. VESSEL BELIEVED TO HAVE 130 POB. NO FURTHER INFORMATION KNOWN.

B) VESSELS IN THE AREA REQUESTED TO REPORT BEST ETA AND INTENTIONS TO THIS STATION OR RCC AUSTRALIA VIA TELEPHONE +61262306811 INMARSAT THROUGH LES BURUM (POR 212,IOR 312), SPECIAL ACCESS CODE (SAC) 39, HF DSC 005030001, EMAIL: [email protected] OR BY FAX +61262306868.
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PAN PAN
FM RCC AUSTRALIA 240639Z JUL 2013 AUSSAR 2013/5009
INDIAN OCEAN NORTHERN PART CHART AUS 4701
AN ASYLUM SEEKER VESSEL WITH 100 POB HAS BEEN REPORTED TO BE SUFFERING MECHANICAL DIFFICULTIES AND TAKING WATER IN POSITION 09 03.99S 104 54.22E AT 240610UTC. VESSELS WITHIN 6 HOURS ABLE TO ASSIST ARE REQUESTED TO ADVISE INTENTIONS TO RCC AUSTRALIA.
REPORTS TO THIS STATION OR RCC AUSTRALIA VIA TELEPHONE +61262306811 INMARSAT THROUGH LES BURUM (POR 212,IOR 312), SPECIAL ACCESS CODE (SAC) 39, HF DSC 005030001, EMAIL: [email protected] OR BY FAX +61262306868.
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My mate Dave got this email from Chris Bowen and Kevin Rudd at 3.47 this afternoon.

It's heading said, "See it First".

When the rest of the nation is concerned about the armada of boats and the killings at sea, Rudd chose this day as a day of governing with an ad about thumb gestures and debt.

Here's Mr Rudd too busy governing to even think about an election date.

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This is the email that's gone out to the Labor Mates this afternoon.

Photos from Christmas Island today where HMAS Bathurst II has been deployed protecting our border Rudd style.   Twice in one day.   The crew must be thrilled to have you as the bloke who sets the policy for them Mr Rudd.   Hope you never need them for anything else.

And this little angel arrived on one of those crappy wooden boats that was lucky to make it (I have covered the little girl's face but she has an angelic smile).   The sight of her with her little doll just breaks your heart -  to think that the people who put her on that boat and the Prime Minister who laid the bait for them did it in the knowledge that 1 in 25 will perish making that journey.

Thanks to Val Majkus for the pointer to this diplomatic note released today by the PNG High Commission.   In Val's note News Limited has  republished this notice from the High Commission.

There is a very good reason for the advisability of observing the protocols DFAT has set out when our country proposes to enter into an enforcable Treaty with another country.   Always in a rush, always half-baked, always incompetent and too often deadly Mr Rudd has left far too many loose ends.

When the DFAT protocols aren't observed, the potential for trouble is huge.  Mr Rudd was foolish in the extreme to make an Arrangement that involves billions of dollars and to rely on that casual Arrangement with a 3rd country as his only proposal to stop the killings at sea (an arrangement is the appropriate way to record agreement for something like taking your mates rubbish bins in return for him mowing the nature strip, enforcable Treaties are used where nations propose to do things like send billions in return for something)

The network of informants around the nation is pumping this afternoon.   Even in a school classroom, the preferred location for Prime Ministerial Governing of late, no announcement is safe from analysis by a member of the www.michaelsmithnews.com team.

Stu of NT's day job involves analysing Prime Ministerial wording forensically - here Mr Rudd inserts an either that might be either an insight or the result of someone playing with his mind.

Either or, you be the judge.

You simply won't believe that you needed to get a clearer insight into Kevin Michael Rudd.

If you haven't seen Stu of NT One More Time, then you don't know how awful you think Mr Rudd really is.   Prepare to learn more about yourself and how you really feel, on the issue of Kevin Michael RUDD remaining in power one more day.

Thank you to the many people who have supported my legal action against Mr Latham.   I'll let you know as soon as I can report the next development.

Separately I have to rattle the tin again for the more mundane matter of living and doing this for you.

If you are on Twitter you may be aware of the raging discussion about the number of stories broken here and then reported elsewhere without attribution (in journalism parlance it's a good thing to break a story and like success, some stories can have many fathers).   

May I say thank you to Jollybagman and others who have taken a great deal more offence at the appearance elsewhere of things raised here than I have.   You are important to me and if you are happy to see things here then I am happy.   That's enough for me.  This is one of the most easily plagiarised sites on the web and so be it.   I don't think anyone can own a story or an idea, it seems a bit contrary to our democratic principles.

I'll never charge you for using this site.   But if you want to donate to its existence here's how:

Michael Smith, National Australia Bank

BSB 084855

A/C 537650476 

Thank you.

I hope you'll excuse me having somewhat mixed feelings right now with the SBS Go Back to Where You Came From repeats next week.

Next Tuesday on SBS you and the rest of the nation will be able to see all 3 one hour episodes of Go Back to Where You Came From starting at 7.30PM.   The show's being repeated because of the recent killings at sea and Australia's response to them.   But that show generates strong opinions itself and I'm sure there will be a hell of a lot of discussion arising from it  - I've been approached for some interviews already.

Much of my family isn't thrilled at the invitation to demonisation that seems to accompany any criticism of boat people or the policies that attract them.   So let me get in early with a few words of my own.

Clare posted a comment on michaelsmithnews.com yesterday in which she asked me to pick a side and stick to it.   As if there are sides like a footy match.   It's tempting and maybe satisfying and insulating to do that, to pretend that there's a good side and a bad side and of course my friends and I.....

That's particularly so if what you say has no consequences.   "We should do more" was the most common refrain I heard during that SBS show.  More what?   More price pressure at local markets, more taking a country's talent to work for foreign NGOs, more money and weapons for one warlord to defeat another?

I have learned a few things in life.   One is that the rule of law is a key differentiator between communities where people sleep soundly and awake with things as they left them - and places where the rule of the jungle applies - to mix the metaphor it's especially so at sea.

I have been in Somalia and seen first hand the culture of the gun and the bomb.  Somali maritime piracy grew out of fishing villages where the law ceased to be and where able seamen found more lucrative returns from catching cargo ships and passing yachts than tuna.

As we talk today, Australia's Prime Minister has told the world that it is not possible for our Naval Forces to stop an intruding vessel and deny it entry to our waters.

Since the Rudd edicts came into force more than 750 illegal boats have tested us out and made it into Australia.  Many others have been lost, but none have been stopped by us.

One important consideration here is the cash flow generated by the illegal activity Mr Rudd tacitly endorses.  45,000 people have paid people smugglers and made shore in Australia.   Many more have been killed doing it.  45,000 people who've each paid the Australian Government estimate of $10,000 to a criminal have generated cash flows of $450,000,000.00.

That illicit money is unlikely to be invested in an industry super fund.   Nor is it likely to be stockpiled for the sake of having it.  It's no doubt being used in or is looking for further criminal activities to finance.

In Somali waters we can see the tragedy that happens when the law disappears.   When huge cash flows are generated from illegal activities and no one comes down hard until it's too late.

Neutering the Navy and turning your men of war into taxis is hardly the action of a sovereign nation keen to avoid the conditions where piracy might flourish.

Somalia didn't happen overnight - but once the rule of the jungle supplanted the rule of law it has been festering for 25 years as a no go zone.

The signs are clear here of lawlessness Mr Rudd.   You failed to enforce sanctions against the people who took over the Oceanic Viking.  You rewarded them with a special deal.   You are now proposing the same thing - a special deal with Australia financing education, welfare, housing, medical and other expenses as a reward for a potentially deadly boat trip.

Don't be surprised to see perverse outcomes when you reward bad behaviour.

$450,000,000 worth of criminal activity.   1,300 people killed in the course of the commission of those offences.  One Australian Customs Armed Vessel taken over by pirates.  Several cargo vessels whose crew have received threats and menaces from persons saved from sinking or allegedly sinking illegal vessels.

And no direct action to stop the boats.

The warnings are clear.   Where might those criminal networks now trained up and funded turn next for continued cashflows.

HMS Portland of the Royal Navy and her crew offshore East Africa might have some clues.