tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22589657.post371264111960672729..comments2023-06-27T20:00:13.830+10:00Comments on Asia Death Penalty: Australia tries to reclaim principleAsia Death Penaltyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793928234872942963noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22589657.post-2754399552029575952008-11-14T01:40:00.000+10:002008-11-14T01:40:00.000+10:00Our government has been playing an embarrassing ga...Our government has been playing an embarrassing game of yo-yo with the death penalty recently. <BR/><BR/>Australia is already a signatory nation to a UN protocol which seeks to ban the death penalty internationally. <BR/><BR/>And PM Rudd really cannot pretend he was expecting Indonesian justice for the Bali bombers to mean anything but the firing squad. And mere hours after they were shot we are going to co-sponser a moratorium on the death penalty... <BR/><BR/>Amateur politics.Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784360495556060013noreply@blogger.com