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17 October 2026
Australia's deadliest asylum seeker boat disaster remembered 25 years on
On October 19, 2001, 353 people died when a fishing boat headed to Christmas Island sank in international waters off the coast of the Indonesian island of Java. Of the dead, 146 were children.
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