Political Intervention

There was a barrage of adverse and derisive commentary from many political corners. Tony Abbott the Prime Minister of Australia, Campbell Newman the Primer of Queensland, Joe Hockey the Federal Treasurer, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, all weighed in with opinion that would ultimately bear consequence for Schapelle Corby herself. Threats to her parole status eventually emerged from Jakarta, along with an instruction preventing her from speaking to the media: in practical terms, a gagging order.