NT:Asylum seeker rescuers praised again

AAP General News (Australia)
08-22-2011
NT:Asylum seeker rescuers praised again

EDS: EMBARGOED until 0001 (AEST) on Monday August 22, 2011.

DARWIN, Aug 22 AAP - Fifteen men and three women who rescued about 40 injured asylum
seekers from a burning boat in the Timor Sea in 2009 are among those to be decorated by
Governor General Quentin Bryce on Monday for "placing the safety and lives of others before
their own":

- Corporal Bradley Joseph Bendeich

- Able Seaman Quinton Royston Boorman

- Leading Seaman Kirsty-Lee Brown

- Petty Officer Thomas Raphael Dawe

- Chief Petty Officer Dean Andrew Faunt

- Able Seaman Tomas David Gallant

- Petty Officer Paul Christopher Hetherington

- Sergeant Sharon Louise Jager

- Leading Seaman Matthew Thomas Keogh

- Able Seaman Jason Cordell List

- Able Seaman Michael Alexander Lordan

- Chief Petty Officer Shane Gregory McCallum

- Leading Seaman Maria Therese Mathews

- Leading Seaman Adrian Carl Medbury

- Leading Aircraftman Thomas Stephen Norton

- Able Seaman Mathew Ross Pierce

- Leading Seaman Daniel Anthony Ryan

- Mr Christopher Alexander Saville

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