Top Australian Immigration Department official Chief 'ignored' SOS for dinner date with his wife at thursday island bowls club.

Its been reported in The NT News and The Weekend Australian news papers 24 February 2007 that a report was done back " At 4pm on October 14, 2005, that Garry Chaston began taking distress calls from the unseaworthy Immigration vessel Malu Sara, which was carrying four adults and a child on the 74km trip between Saibai Island and Badu Island.

The skipper, Immigration Department officer Wildred Baira, told Mr Chaston he was "lost in fog".

The fact is that once a person takes a SOS call he/she has to stand fast on station until that emergency is over but this has not been the case.

There for this report on this Top Australian Immigration Department official in that he should be charged with the murder of 4 adults and one child due to his dereliction of duty.

The fact that of the reported time line of when the vessel first sent out the SOS to that of 15 hours had passed is a travesty in any ones language.

Also the other part of these reported facts is that " After the Malu Sara tragedy, the other five vessels - all built on contract by Subsee Explorer from Cairns Queensland- were withdrawn from the water, put in storage and tested.

All were found to be so shoddily built that the decks were not watertight and they were not even the correct length.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau found the boats were deficient in design and did not have proper floatation to keep them afloat if they capsized; the cockpit floor was not watertight, allowing water to accumulate in the hull; the cockpit scuppers and motor-well freeing port allowed seawater to flow back into the boat; the vessel would have exhibited unstable characteristics and capsized when the cockpit was swamped.

I have to ask why then where these vessel passed in the first place seeing how they don't come up to their own posted specifications also I would ask WHY has this boat builder " Subsee Explorer from Cairns Queensland " not also been charged by police with attributing to the deaths of these 4 adults and one child in them having supplied vessels which were sub standard and OUT of specification to start with.

Mr Chaston who was moved to Immigration Department offices in Cairns Queensland because Torres Strait Islanders were threatening him, said: "I have been advised by the department not to say anything, so you will have to direct your questions to them."

No he should not he should stand trial for the deaths of these innocent people seeing that was his job as chief of immigration my god we go from " Amanda vanstone " in her passing the buck to now a mass murderer all been done in the name of The Australian immigration Departmentand its sending out the message that says being the chief of immigration is as close to a position one would be in that carries no liability for the health and safety of its employees apart from sending australian citizens to god knows where they are sending them to their deaths now.

As for the other five immigration Department vessels we will have to wait and see how they can justify their lack of safety equipment on these vessels seeing how they are Government vessels.

It will now be interesting to follow this up and coming Coronial inquest into the deaths of these five people that will be held on Thursday Island in April.

It will also be interesting to hear if the Maritime and safe codes for the handling of such SOS's will be heard let alone the Telecommunication acts under which such matters of handling such SOS's are also covered.

If Mr Chaston and/or are not charged over these deaths then you have only collaborated what I have stated here!