I think most of the coverage is on this blog. Twenty years for over nine pounds of marijuana smuggling.
Indonesia was more upset than I think Australia was because of allies in The West and their anti-drug campaigns. Indonesia didn't want the image of a drug haven. It also was interested in adding drug wars to the landscape.
Jonathan Pearlman
Sydney
10 February 2014
An Australian beautician, (click here) bikini designer and convicted drug smuggler has been freed from jail in Bali following a nine-year saga whose every twist has been intensely followed across the nation.
Indonesia was more upset than I think Australia was because of allies in The West and their anti-drug campaigns. Indonesia didn't want the image of a drug haven. It also was interested in adding drug wars to the landscape.
Jonathan Pearlman
Sydney
10 February 2014
An Australian beautician, (click here) bikini designer and convicted drug smuggler has been freed from jail in Bali following a nine-year saga whose every twist has been intensely followed across the nation.
Wearing a hat and scarf to cover her face, Schapelle Corby finally walked out
of a Bali prison and the local correctional office and avoided a media scrum
by entering the protection of security guards who work for an Australian
television station which reportedly paid millions of dollars for a first
interview.
Corby, 36, has served almost 10 years of her 20-year sentence after being
convicted of smuggling 4.2 kilograms of marijuana in her body-board bag.
She has been released on parole and must live in Indonesia
until until her parole is fully served on July 25, 2017.
A prison official, Farid Junaedi, said Corby was "just fine, only a
little bit nervous and asking why there's so many people and reporters"...
Then there were issues with East Timor, too. So, Indonesia really didn't want the drug commerce as a way to finance civil wars.
January 28, 2014
Philip Dorling
Federal Attorney-General George Brandis (click here) has moved to block the release of secret archives that would reveal the Australian government's knowledge of Indonesian war crimes in East Timor.
Senator Brandis has issued a public interest certificate that will prevent University of NSW Associate Professor Clinton Fernandes from attending the Administrative Appeals Tribunal on Tuesday when the government argues that Justice Duncan Kerr should reject his application for access to Australian diplomatic papers and intelligence on Indonesian military operations in East Timor more than 32 years ago.
Consequently Dr Fernandes will be unable to read, hear or directly challenge the government's arguments for continuing secrecy.
Then there were issues with East Timor, too. So, Indonesia really didn't want the drug commerce as a way to finance civil wars.
January 28, 2014
Philip Dorling
Federal Attorney-General George Brandis (click here) has moved to block the release of secret archives that would reveal the Australian government's knowledge of Indonesian war crimes in East Timor.
Senator Brandis has issued a public interest certificate that will prevent University of NSW Associate Professor Clinton Fernandes from attending the Administrative Appeals Tribunal on Tuesday when the government argues that Justice Duncan Kerr should reject his application for access to Australian diplomatic papers and intelligence on Indonesian military operations in East Timor more than 32 years ago.
Consequently Dr Fernandes will be unable to read, hear or directly challenge the government's arguments for continuing secrecy.
