Australia's deadliest asylum seeker boat disaster remembered 25 years on

Key points

• Mourners gathered at the SIEV X Memorial in Canberra to mark 25 years since the sinking of the SIEV X, Australia's deadliest asylum seeker boat disaster. On October 19, 2001, 353 people died when the fishing boat sank off Java while heading to Christmas Island.
• Of the dead, 146 were children. The memorial, at Weston Park beside Lake Burley Griffin, has a wooden pole for each victim.
• Organisers say more than 100 victims' names have not been made public. Memorial co-founder Steve Biddulph said the memorial sends a message that ordinary Australians are not terrified of refugees.