Are the Australian Navy shooting at people? That might work

[donnashuggy]

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-turns-back-asylum-seeker-boat-from-i...

Indonesian authorities have quoted the asylum seekers on board saying Australian navy personnel fired shots as part of the operation to turn around the boat carrying 25 people.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-turns-back-asylum-seeker-boat-from-i...

[**meep**]

Don't you love the headlines?  I just read another article titled The Australian Navy fires shots at asylum seekers.

It continues: Indonesian authorities are reporting that Australian navy personnel may have fired shots as part of their operation to stop the boat from reaching Christmas Island.  

I'm sorry, I know I am repeating what has been said over and over here about trusting our media reports.....

Try elsewhere -  where are the headlines?

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/

http://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=workspace%3A%2F%2FSpacesStore%2F6714b2ba-fee2-4340-b480...

http://www.thejakartapost.com/channel/world/10

[poddster]

You naughty girl Meep, you have bludgeoned the thread to death with some reality 🙂

[poddster]

Either that our our media is better informed about what is happening in Asia than the Asian press

[donnashuggy]

I really like AlJazeera, did you read this one?

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/01/families-split-australia-migrant-centres-201416842...

[donnashuggy]

Balanced factual reporting, should be more of it, here is a bit of history for those that are choosing to forget

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/11/indonesia-freezes-cooperation-with-australia-2013...

[i-need-a-martini]

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@poddster wrote:

A plane trip from Indonesia costs about 1/10 of what these people are paying, has'nt anyone ever woundered why they are paying 10 times the going rate for travel?

Could it be ti hide their identity and to hook into the welfare system?

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Do some research Poddster on why people arrive without passports.

I won't do it for you because it has been noted on these forums often enough.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@poddster wrote:

Either that our our media is better informed about what is happening in Asia than the Asian press

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Why would the Asian media care about what happens to a small bunch of people that aren't even citizens of their own country when they have hundreds of thousands looking to get placed in another country?

Not sure why it would be reported in Asia.

[poddster]

A very impressive curriculum vitae

Nyssa Skilton

@NyssaSkilton

Journalist interested in health, science, society and things that make you go ooh.

Sydney, Australia

A very exacting science, all those things that make you go ooh 🙂

[poddster]

Why is it reported here ?

[i-need-a-martini]

Twitter isn't a serious journalistic forum nor is it related to her professional articles.

She is in fact a very good journo.