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y wife and family live in Australia. Our only two children, now adults, have both been terribly affected by the impact of heroin and methamphetamine. My entire family remains dysfunctional and our situation is terribly stressful and sad.

I applaud your government'€™s stance on the death penalty for those convicted of possessing, dealing or attempting to export drugs. Any acts such as these are just devastating to peoples all over the world.

Do not be swayed at all by the Australian Government'€™s pleas to your country'€™s rulers.

Those who are spared the death penalty may rot in one of your prisons for a number of years (their own self contrived '€œhell on earth'€) but if released to Australia to serve their sentences, will be released back into our society once again, after a short time, to sell their death drugs again.

Our laws in Australia are just too soft. We have too many people now who have been conditioned over many, many years, to tolerate of acts which, 30-40 years ago, would have been deemed absolutely abhorrent.I just wish that we had in Australia a succession of governments with such a strong commitment to drug crimes as your own.

If they are Australian, get rid of them '€“ send our country and all countries a strong message and make a lot of people globally, particularly Australian mums, dads and families, satisfied and happy that their remains at least one country in the world, ethically and conscientiously inclined to address the problem at its basic level.

With thanks to the Indonesian government.

Bruce Webber
Australia