December 15, 2024 • 6 mins
The five remaining members of the Australian“Bali Nine” drug ring have returned home after 19 years in jail in Indonesia, the Australian Government said Sunday.
Indonesian police arrested the nine Australians in 2005, convicting them of attempting to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin off the holiday island of Bali.
In a case that drew global attention to Indonesia’s unforgiving drug laws,
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murray Old's Ossi corresponding with us right now. Mars, Hello,
very good morning, do you Heather, So what's the reaction
been to the last of the Bali nine getting back
to Ozzie, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It depends you ask, you know, the more conservative Australian voters.
You know you listen to talkback radio. The news broke
yesterday afternoon and that the last five are now home.
They flew into Darwin on the same airline that they
flew they were planning to fly back all those years
ago with heroin strapped of their bodies. There were five left.
(00:34):
One died in prison, of course, two were shot dead
by firing squad. They were executed for their roles in
this drug plot. And of course the only female was
paroled early and Renee Lawrence has been home. So Scott Rush,
Matthew Norman Sichi, Chen Martin Stevens and Michael Chugay were
all serving life sentences. Anthony Albanezi had a word to
(00:57):
the incoming Indonesian president on the sidelines of a recent
South American conference and they're our home and you know,
the right wing here are saying, well they should have
stayed there. We don't want them back the left is saying, well,
you know, you don't get that long for murder and
it's time they were brought home. Interestingly, Heather, there's no
(01:19):
additional punishment required from back in Australia to be supervised obviously,
and they will also you know, there's going to be
no ongoing punishment. As I said, there's no more jail time,
and I mean, let's put it that way, but you know,
they will be monitored and the government says, look, they've
(01:42):
done the crime and they've now done the time, so
they home in time for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What kind of state do you reckon they'll be in
after nearly twenty years in an Indonesian jail.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Would be pretty messed up. I mean, it's not the Helton,
is it. I mean, it's a pretty dreadful prison system.
But then I mean, to show me a prison system
it's any good, I'd be dreadful. Spent twenty years, you know,
and the best years of your life in a hellhole
like they've been in. In fact, they've been scattered at
different prisons Indonesia. It's not as they have even been
together all these years. So look, I think for them
(02:13):
and their families and the ones who love them. It'll
be a very welcome Christmas present. But not everybody's doing
handsprings show.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I can imagine that, hey, Dustin will be pretty pleased
to themselves. I when people are still talking about as
nuclear land.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah they are. And again I mean look, politics is
fractured along ideological lines over here. There's no attempt anymore
to have a common policy for the common good for
the Commonwealth, none of that, particularly in the febrile environment
we find ourselves in in the countdown to an election
(02:46):
early next year. How early we're not sure. It's up
to al but easy to pull the trigger on that.
But yes, Peter Dutton finally dropped his nuclear power planned
last week. Again the right wing, where's well done, Pete,
excellent plan, notwithstanding the enormous cost that taxpayers will have
to spend amen seven hundred billion dollars or something to
(03:08):
build seven nuclear power plants. We'll be paying for that taxpayers.
And also a couple of very important moving parts of
the Dutton plan. It's going to delay the in fact,
it will help the rollout of renewables as far as
the Coalition is concerned. And somehow he's going to magically
make the old coal fired power stations that are clapped out. Now,
(03:31):
no one's willing to spend a dollar on trying to
refurbish these things and keep them going, but the Coalition
wants to keep them going. Well out of the twenty thirties,
there are seven of these and they're at the end
of their lives. So who's going to refer these We're
not sure. The government says it's pieing the sky. Nonsense
from a guy who's clutching its straws. The coalition, the
opposition of course, saying well, Labour's plan, you know, it
(03:55):
depends when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing.
When that's not happening, base load power isn't being provided.
So it's going to be another area of contest in
the lead up to the election. But underpending everything, it's
cost of living that's going to be the big one
for the election.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Here the mas listen, do we know what resort in
Fiji these people got alcohol poisoned at.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, we don't. We're all you know. I just heard
last night. I've been to the Coral coast of Fiji.
It's a beautiful spot, lots of lovely resorts, there. I'm
not sure exactly which resort. No, we haven't. We have
not learned that. But it's it's pretty serious. It's got echoes,
hasn't it? Of Laos and the recent tragedy up there
where those young people. There were two young Buzsie girls
(04:37):
who died, but there are four Australians involved in Fiji.
Seven people rushed to hospital. Hang on, I've just looked
it up here, thank you very much. Indeed my computer
the Warwick Resort, the Warwick Fiji Resort, another.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
One Warck's not it's not that's but flash, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, look I'm not stay there, but no doubt you
know Hosking and the likes would be. I think he's
got a sweep there. Yeah, well he is. That's right.
It's a very smart resort. Now is it deliberate? Is
it an accident? We're not sure. The Fiji and Health
Ministry is on the case and apparently the people who
(05:15):
have been taken ill have now been transferred to perhaps
the best hospital in Fiji. So look, more news are
coming through today and no doubt, lots of concern for
these people, yeah, particularly given what we saw in last Marz.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Thanks very much appreciate it. That's Murray Olds. Hoskin's got
a suite there. He says, like he doesn't have a
sweet there himself. The Warwick is quite a nice a
nice resort. I'll tell you what everybody's interested in. Because
who hasn't been to Fiji lately? Right, you'll have been
to Fiji in the last five years, A hot on
wind to close the borders. Now you'll have been to
(05:49):
Fiji in the last six years, and we've all gone
to the Coral Coast. In fact, the last time I
went to Fiji, which was this year, I went to
the Coral Coast. Anyway, listen, I'm starting to I'm starting
to feel slightly nervous about inking cocktails when I'm oversees.
How are you feeling about that? For more from the
Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to News Talks at b
from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Murray Old's Ossi corresponding with us right now. Mars, Hello,
very good morning, do you Heather, So what's the reaction
been to the last of the Bali nine getting back
to Ozzie, Well.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It depends you ask, you know, the more conservative Australian voters.
You know you listen to talkback radio. The news broke
yesterday afternoon and that the last five are now home.
They flew into Darwin on the same airline that they
flew they were planning to fly back all those years
ago with heroin strapped of their bodies. There were five left.
(00:34):
One died in prison, of course, two were shot dead
by firing squad. They were executed for their roles in
this drug plot. And of course the only female was
paroled early and Renee Lawrence has been home. So Scott Rush,
Matthew Norman Sichi, Chen Martin Stevens and Michael Chugay were
all serving life sentences. Anthony Albanezi had a word to
(00:57):
the incoming Indonesian president on the sidelines of a recent
South American conference and they're our home and you know,
the right wing here are saying, well they should have
stayed there. We don't want them back the left is saying, well,
you know, you don't get that long for murder and
it's time they were brought home. Interestingly, Heather, there's no
(01:19):
additional punishment required from back in Australia to be supervised obviously,
and they will also you know, there's going to be
no ongoing punishment. As I said, there's no more jail time,
and I mean, let's put it that way, but you know,
they will be monitored and the government says, look, they've
(01:42):
done the crime and they've now done the time, so
they home in time for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What kind of state do you reckon they'll be in
after nearly twenty years in an Indonesian jail.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Would be pretty messed up. I mean, it's not the Helton,
is it. I mean, it's a pretty dreadful prison system.
But then I mean, to show me a prison system
it's any good, I'd be dreadful. Spent twenty years, you know,
and the best years of your life in a hellhole
like they've been in. In fact, they've been scattered at
different prisons Indonesia. It's not as they have even been
together all these years. So look, I think for them
(02:13):
and their families and the ones who love them. It'll
be a very welcome Christmas present. But not everybody's doing
handsprings show.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I can imagine that, hey, Dustin will be pretty pleased
to themselves. I when people are still talking about as
nuclear land.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah they are. And again I mean look, politics is
fractured along ideological lines over here. There's no attempt anymore
to have a common policy for the common good for
the Commonwealth, none of that, particularly in the febrile environment
we find ourselves in in the countdown to an election
(02:46):
early next year. How early we're not sure. It's up
to al but easy to pull the trigger on that.
But yes, Peter Dutton finally dropped his nuclear power planned
last week. Again the right wing, where's well done, Pete,
excellent plan, notwithstanding the enormous cost that taxpayers will have
to spend amen seven hundred billion dollars or something to
(03:08):
build seven nuclear power plants. We'll be paying for that taxpayers.
And also a couple of very important moving parts of
the Dutton plan. It's going to delay the in fact,
it will help the rollout of renewables as far as
the Coalition is concerned. And somehow he's going to magically
make the old coal fired power stations that are clapped out. Now,
(03:31):
no one's willing to spend a dollar on trying to
refurbish these things and keep them going, but the Coalition
wants to keep them going. Well out of the twenty thirties,
there are seven of these and they're at the end
of their lives. So who's going to refer these We're
not sure. The government says it's pieing the sky. Nonsense
from a guy who's clutching its straws. The coalition, the
opposition of course, saying well, Labour's plan, you know, it
(03:55):
depends when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing.
When that's not happening, base load power isn't being provided.
So it's going to be another area of contest in
the lead up to the election. But underpending everything, it's
cost of living that's going to be the big one
for the election.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Here the mas listen, do we know what resort in
Fiji these people got alcohol poisoned at.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, we don't. We're all you know. I just heard
last night. I've been to the Coral coast of Fiji.
It's a beautiful spot, lots of lovely resorts, there. I'm
not sure exactly which resort. No, we haven't. We have
not learned that. But it's it's pretty serious. It's got echoes,
hasn't it? Of Laos and the recent tragedy up there
where those young people. There were two young Buzsie girls
(04:37):
who died, but there are four Australians involved in Fiji.
Seven people rushed to hospital. Hang on, I've just looked
it up here, thank you very much. Indeed my computer
the Warwick Resort, the Warwick Fiji Resort, another.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
One Warck's not it's not that's but flash, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, look I'm not stay there, but no doubt you
know Hosking and the likes would be. I think he's
got a sweep there. Yeah, well he is. That's right.
It's a very smart resort. Now is it deliberate? Is
it an accident? We're not sure. The Fiji and Health
Ministry is on the case and apparently the people who
(05:15):
have been taken ill have now been transferred to perhaps
the best hospital in Fiji. So look, more news are
coming through today and no doubt, lots of concern for
these people, yeah, particularly given what we saw in last Marz.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Thanks very much appreciate it. That's Murray Olds. Hoskin's got
a suite there. He says, like he doesn't have a
sweet there himself. The Warwick is quite a nice a
nice resort. I'll tell you what everybody's interested in. Because
who hasn't been to Fiji lately? Right, you'll have been
to Fiji in the last five years, A hot on
wind to close the borders. Now you'll have been to
(05:49):
Fiji in the last six years, and we've all gone
to the Coral Coast. In fact, the last time I
went to Fiji, which was this year, I went to
the Coral Coast. Anyway, listen, I'm starting to I'm starting
to feel slightly nervous about inking cocktails when I'm oversees.
How are you feeling about that? For more from the
Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to News Talks at b
from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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