I don't see how they can avoid it politically.
Just yesterday the former PM was mocking the Inmarsat analyses and the south Indian Ocean search.
Well here is their opportunity — have at it
Angus Houston, head of the search effort off Australia’s west coast, said on Wednesday that he was confident crews were already searching in the right place, but that Malaysia should investigate the GeoResonance report. He said he only discovered this week that the Bay of Bengal information had earlier been passed directly to Malaysia.
Now Malaysia is really on the spot — Angus Houston saying that Malaysia should go ahead and investigate