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Changing the game plan at the last minute may have undermined the ratings success of Schapelle, which aired last night instead of tonight as originally planned. Nine decided on Friday to bring the broadcast forward to Sunday night and take advantage of intense public interest in Schapelle Corby’s imminent release from Bali’s Kerobakan Prison. However, […]

The exclusive interview will be conducted by senior reporter Mike Willesee and will air on the network’s Sunday Night. Willesee is understood to have flown into Bali in secret on Thursday and stayed away from Kerobokan Prison and other media hotspots to avoid attracting suspicion Seven had bought the rights to the story. He and […]

The store, Kuta Board Room, is owned by Schapelle’s brother-in-law, Wayan Widyartha. A small workshop on the first floor of the squat building will likely be Schapelle’s design studio – its windows onto the street below blocked from prying eyes by strategically-positioned surf posters. The shop is located in the heaving heart of Kuta – […]

The 36-year-old convicted drugs smuggler walked out of the jail’s front door at 8.15am local time (11.15am AEDT) this morning wearing a scarf around her head and a hat. She kept her head down as she was met by a media scrum and was forced to fight her way through dozens of TV cameramen, photographers and […]

During a brief visit inside the prison walls yesterday, The Weekly spoke to inmates who said Schapelle had been moved to the jail’s “release cell”, in anticipation of her departure today. They said Schapelle spent part of the afternoon yesterday farewelling fellow Aussie inmates, including Bali 9 death row prisoners, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. […]

Sources inside Kerobokan suggest the most likely time for Schapelle to be released tomorrow is after the prison’s afternoon visiting hours, which conclude at 3pm (6pm AEDT). It is understood that once her release papers have been signed by the Governor of Kerobokan prison, the 36-year-old Australian will exit the jail and be transported direct to a […]

The revelations came as Prime Minister Tony Abbott praised his ‘tough’ policies because they were ‘working’. Mr Abbott said no asylum seekers had reached Australia by boat in 50 days, the longest period since 2008. As the policy tests relations with Indonesia, officials from the Water Police Unit said ‘undocumented migrants’ found stranded in a […]

Corby, 36, is page three news of the Jakarta Post today after the Law and Human Rights Ministry granted her parole. The former beauty school dropout could be released from Kerobokan prison early next week. However House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santosa backed a petition challenging the decision to give the Australian parole. […]

And as Schapelle Corby lays down to sleep tonight in Kerobokan jail, knowing it could well be her second last night in Bali’s infamous prison, it will be little wonder if she gets very little rest at all. Three thousand, four hundred and five, give or take, is the number of nights Schapelle has spent in […]

The Indonesian Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin announced Corby’s parole had been approved in a press conference in Jakarta this evening. He said Corby was one of 1571 parole applicants he had considered and approved but stressed that she was not receiving any sort of special treatment. “Parole is not a generosity from the government, it […]