Every question answered except this: who lured them to their deaths?

Just as predicted, the Gillard Government's inquiry investigated everything about the Christmas Island tragedy - other than the lax laws that lured another 30 or more boat people to their deaths:

A NEW land-based radar system will be tested on Christmas Island to help in the early detection of wooden boats following last month's asylum-seeker tragedy.

The move is one of eight recommendations accepted by the federal government following an internal review by border protection authorities of the December 15 disaster, which cost at least 30 lives.

Customs and Border Protection authorities said they did not know a boat which smashed into cliffs in rough seas at Christmas Island was heading for the Australian territory.

In the wake of the disaster, questions were asked about why border protection authorities did not get to the stricken vessel in time to prevent it breaking up on rocks.

So, also just as predicted, it was too soon last month to suggest the Gillard Government's weak laws were in large part to blame, and now it's too late to make anyone care.

Political management 101, abetted by a culpable media. And so the guilty escape the blame.

UPDATE

David Marr's immediate instinct was to blame the navy:

How anybody allowed that boat to get anywhere near the cliff is the principal question of this disaster. What was that boat doing there? The first people it needs to be directed to is the navy… The first question that must be asked is why the navy, it it was within the navy's power, why the navy let that boat anywhere near the island.

The report gives Marr his answer:

The review found that Customs and Border Protection Command personnel and their navy colleagues risked their lives to rescue 42 asylum-seekers aboard the SIEV 221 who were thrown into the ocean.

The review also found the organisation's personnel responded appropriately to the disaster.

It said the organisation had no intelligence to indicate when the boat departed Indonesia or was likely to arrive at Christmas Island.

Chief executive Michael Carmody said ... "We don't have anything that would enable us to pinpoint every vessel and know exactly where it is, that's just not capable (sic)"

So what's Marr's second question?