Central Coast in a Spin Over Rumours Obama will Sink Their Battleship - Crikey 12/03/10
“The final decision rests — uncomfortably, again — with federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett, who must sign a sea dumping certificate. A ministerial spokesperson told Crikey the Department is considering the application which has yet to make it to the Minister’s desk.
The HMAS Adelaide was involved in the rescue of asylum seekers from the sunken SIEV 4 vessel in 2001 — the scandal that became known as the Children Overboard affair. Controversy will follow, it seems, to its ultimate seabed demise.”