ASYLUM SEEKERS ON BOARD 'BURNS' BOAT SPEAK OUTThe single most controversial episode under the Government's asylum seeker turn-back strategy occurred in January this year when a boat carrying 45 passengers was intercepted off Northern Australia. Asylum seekers on that boat later claimed that some of them had had their hands deliberately burned on a hot engine pipe by Australian personnel.ROYAL COMMISSION HEARS CONFLICTING REPORTS ON CARDINAL'S KNOWLEDGECardinal George Pell has appeared before the Royal Commission in to the Catholic Church's handling of child sex abuse claims amid conflicting reports about what he knew about the case of former altar boy John Ellis before he admitted he should have exercised greater oversight of the case
