October 16 will mark the 30th anniversary of the slaying of five Australian-based journalists by an Indonesian-led assault on the border village of Balibo, East Timor, in 1975. They are the Balibo Five, and they have become part of the Australian mainstream consciousness.
Schapelle Corby, Tugun resident, and trainee beauty therapist, is set to emulate them. Not in deed, but in effect.
The proposition is not as strange as it may sound. Like the Balibo incident, the Corby affair has the potential to set Australian public sentiment crashing against the best laid diplomatic plans of Australian and Indonesian officialdom, in their attempts to restore closer ties between the two neighbours.
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