Australia's navy captains charged.

[Swampy]

While they were in the process of turning back asylum seekers, their vessels entered Indonesian waters, which was forbidden. The captains have apparently been removed, which seems pretty harsh.

The asylum issue, for those familiar with Australian matters, is an ongoing concern.

[Sir John]

The suggestion that a bunch of Navy Captains would ALL defy or ignore such a thing is ridiculous!

One maybe, but not ALL of them.

SJ

[hornet32]

Captains ? OZ only has one Vessel that's bigger than a fishing trawler , so the next question should be how many Captains does it take to operate an OZ ship .

[premier1]

You must have visited Geelong Hornet, there is quite a fleet of fishing trawlers moored there. The RAN ships are elsewhere including the first of two new flat tops for helicopter operations and jump jets with room for a division of soldiers and their equipment below decks. My understanding is that the Navy has problems recruiting enough sailors to man the fleet.

[hornet32]

Can't recruit 'cause all the Sailors are Captains , however there are a number of Dark Fellows in the outback that would be interested if only for a daily tot of grog .

[premier1]

They man our secret weapons, dug out timber canoes with a torpedo and high speed paddles.