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A fishing boat sank off the coast of Australia on 19th October 2001. Campaigners have now named this boat the SIEV X.
You are invited to the launch of the National Siev X Memorial Exhibition on Tuesday 26th October.
Sir William Deane will open the exhibition at 6.30pm, at the Pitt St Uniting Church.
Pitt St Uniting Church is located at 264 Pitt St, Sydney, between Park and Bathurst Streets. It is a 5 minute walk from Town Hall Station.
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Australia must release the names of the 353 dead!
On 19 October 2001, 146 children, 142 women and 65 men lost their lives when the small, grossly-overloaded Indonesian fishing boat, in which they were travelling, capsized and sank as they sought to flee persecution in their homelands and rebuild their lives in Australia. (Institute of Race Relations, 30 Oct 2003)
Boat survivors tell of ordeal
The 44 traumatised survivors from an Indonesian ship that sank on Friday, killing more than 350 asylum seekers on board, have been telling of their ordeal. (BBC, 23 Oct 2001)
More than 350 migrants die near Indonesia
More than 350 migrants, most of them Iraqis, have drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Indonesia. (Ananova, 22 Oct 2001)
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