A deal is underway between the Indonesian and Australian governments to transfer 5 Aussies serving life sentences for drug trafficking back home. They’re part of a group known as the Bali Nine who were caught trying to smuggle heroin into Australia in 2005. It was a huge story at the time, so in this Shortcut, we’ll get you across who the Bali Nine are, and what we know about the deal to bring them home.

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Reading: This interview piece by our very own Bryce Corbett, who flew to Bali to speak with Renae Lawrence in Kerobokan Prison in 2013 for The Australian Women’s Weekly. She tells him how she got mixed up in a bad circle, what was going through her mind when she was arrested, and how she survived daily life in a Bali prison. 

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