PM told overboard claims false: inquiry
December 9, 2004 - 11:24AM
A parliamentary inquiry has backed claims from a former defence adviser that he told Prime Minister John Howard claims that children were thrown from an asylum seeker boat were false.
The Senate set up an inquiry in August into new revelations by Mike Scrafton, a former senior adviser to former defence minister Peter Reith, that contradicted the government's children overboard claims.
Mr Scrafton said he had told the Prime Minister in November 2001 that a videotape was "at best inconclusive" as to whether there were any children in the water.
