The Wire

The case of Schapelle Corby, on trial for her life in Bali after drugs were found in her luggage, is proving to be a real test of the Australian government’s faith in the Indonesian justice system. Deakin University Senior Lecturer in International Development Dr Damian Kingsbury says our government needs to proceed with great caution when monitoring the trial. And meanwhile another Australian convicted of carrying heroin into Singapore waits on death row. President of the Victorian branch of the Vietnamese Community in Australia Hung Chao has just returned from Singapore where his pleas for mercy for Nguyen Tuong Van went unheard as officials refused to see him.