on โ10-12-2014 02:27 PM
I wonder, is it different if your dad is a policeman?
Ms Bishop has done a good job here. I wonder why the parents of other drug traffickers, who said it wasn't their drugs, didn't get the same help?
on โ10-12-2014 02:30 PM
on โ10-12-2014 02:33 PM
She may well be innocent, however, the drugs were in "their" luggage.
The other Australians in foreign prisons may also have been innocent. We will never know.
on โ10-12-2014 02:34 PM
on โ10-12-2014 02:43 PM
The Government steps in all the time.
The difference is the Gov't has stated that they will do what they normally do BUT it is not a free service embassy / consular staff are required because of your own actions / stupidity. ie a bill comes with it.
This is because so many idiots get into trouble OS.
on โ10-12-2014 02:44 PM
I don't really care, I'm just glad she's home.
I do think that the government should have done everything humanly possible to get those journalists released though.
โ10-12-2014 02:47 PM - edited โ10-12-2014 02:51 PM
At lot more goes on behind the scenes than they let on, for obvious reasons.
As much as we don't agree with some "judicial processes" in other countries, we can't just willy nilly stick our nose in
and demand the release of someone. It would set a dangerous precendant.
on โ10-12-2014 02:48 PM
on โ10-12-2014 02:50 PM
on โ10-12-2014 02:50 PM