It takes the average reader 5 hours and 22 minutes to read A Certain Maritime Incident by Tony Kevin
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In October 2001, over 400 asylum-seekers departed from Indonesia in a grossly overcrowded, rickety boat bound for Australia. Somewhere between the two countries the boat sank with a huge loss of life - 353 of the asylum seekers drowned. The Australian government claimed it had no prior knowledge of this unfolding tragedy, and had no responsibility for it. Yet ministers and senior officials from the beginning tried to mislead the Australian Senate and the community over important questions. What did the government and its agencies know about the boat and its fate, and when? Did we have any responsibility for the tragedy? Did we have a duty of care to save the survivors that we shirked? "A Certain Maritime Incident" joins the dots for the first time to reveal a disquieting record of government misconduct, including Australian Federal Police involvement in a people-smuggling 'disruption program', and an extraordinary combination of stonewalling and professed ignorance by a government dedicated to micromanaging the deterrence of asylum-seeker voyages.
A Certain Maritime Incident by Tony Kevin is 321 pages long, and a total of 80,571 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 20 minutes to read A Certain Maritime Incident aloud.
A Certain Maritime Incident is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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