Drip, drip, drip...

Yet another revelation in the "Children Overboard" affair from the Sydney Morning Herald:

"A senior adviser to the Prime Minister - Miles Jordana - was told in early October 2001 - almost a month before the last election - that photographs purporting to show asylum seekers throwing their children overboard were misrepresented...

Mr Jordana was told unequivocally that the photos were of the sinking of the refugee boat on October 8 - the day after the Government said the children overboard incident occurred.

The Government never corrected the misrepresentation, or conceded that the event had never happened, until after the November 10 poll which returned Mr Howard for a third term. "