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...Crimson struggled early at the 68th Erwin Schell Trophy, but Himler and fellow junior skipper Alan Palmer righted the ship, helping the squad to solid performances across the board. In the A division, Palmer led his boat to a fifth-place showing, pairing primarily with senior Winston Yan on Saturday before junior Grace Charles took over as crew on Sunday. The second duo notched four top-five finishes to lower the boat score to 148 points...
...rickety boat emitted signals of distress from the Sunda strait, a body of water sandwiched between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. Local authorities had no vessels in the area, and called on Australia for assistance. When H.M.A.S. Armidale, an Australian naval ship, approached the troubled craft, they found 78 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers heading for Australia. Unsurprisingly, their wooden boat was not seaworthy, and those on board were transferred to the Oceanic Viking, an armed patrol vessel used by Australian customs to track poachers of the highly endangered Patagonian toothfish in these waters...
...last month, Australia has been grappling with a rising number of asylum seekers making their way to its shores via Indonesia. Around the time that the Tamils were being transferred to the Ocean Viking , another wooden boat carrying 255 Australia-bound Sri Lankan Tamils was intercepted by the Indonesian navy. The ship is now docked in the Indonesian port of Merak, and for three weeks its passengers have refused to disembark. On Nov. 2, another boat capsized near the Cocos Islands, a tiny set of Australian-owned atolls in the Indian Ocean. By the end of the day, 19 male...
...Intercepting asylum seekers arriving by boat from Indonesia has become routine for the Australian navy since Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd snuffed out the Pacific Solution in 2007. This year, more than 1,700 people have arrived by boat to Australia, compared to 161 last year. The opposition Liberal Party of Australia attributes the rise in asylum seekers directly to Rudd's new policies, saying that looser laws are encouraging more refugees to head Down Under through human-smuggling rings in Indonesia. They point to the fact that Rudd sped up the processing for protection-visa applications, and has guaranteed...
...still waiting off the coast of Bintan. The ship, registered to carry 75 passengers, now has over 110 on board, including customs officials. Indonesia has given the ship until Nov. 6 to leave international waters. No country wants the public relations nightmare of physically forcing the refugees from the boat. Indonesia lays the responsibility squarely on Australia's shoulders, and Australia says the refugees, who were found in Indonesia's search-and-rescue area, are Indonesia's problem. "I think the government foolishly created an embarrassing situation for itself," said Lindy Edwards, a political scientist at the Australian National University...