| Right: These installations represent the 353 people
- mainly women and children - who drowned on the SIEV-X*.
Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) conditions prevented refugees from bringing
their families here, so 142 women and 146 children were forced to resort
to desperate measures to join their husbands/fathers who were in Australia
on TPVs.
* SIEV stands for Suspected Illegal Entry Vessel, and
X stands for the one which wasn't identified. This vessel sank on its
way to Australia in 2001, and In 2007 there are still serious suspicions
about the cause of its sinking.
See another page on this site about a
permanent memorial which we got eventually on the banks of Lake Burley
Griffin in Canberra.
For more info please go to www.sievx.com
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