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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Why? Do we not owe as much to victims of domestic violence as to executed drug smugglers. Her name was Linda Locke, her partner, who has been charged with her murder is on a methodone programme - who knows he may even have been a customer of a drug dealer being supplied by the bali nine -  her death is an unspeakable outrage, yet apart from a brief mention in todays news and probably a few more when the case comes to trial, nobody but her family will ever remember she even existed. 

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we already have laws in this country

that are supposed to protect victims 

of dv. more needs to be done hence 

all the public campaigns.

this might give you an idea why so many

australians are outraged by what happened

to chan and sukumaran:

Amnesty International extends its deepest sympathies to the loved ones of the eight prisoners in Indonesia tragically executed overnight and renews its call for Indonesia to commute all death sentences.

"We stand in solidarity with the families of all those who were brutally executed in this senseless, tragic and wasteful act of state-sanctioned murder.

"Despite promising steps away from the death penalty prior to 2013 and four years without any executions, Indonesia’s resumption of this cruel and inhuman punishment has put them well out of step with the rest of the world.

"In Australia, the deaths of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have sent shockwaves around the country and exposed a nation to the inhumanity and cruelty of the death penalty," said Diana Sayed.

http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/37089/