Many Australians awoke appalled today - those that had gone to bed at all, as many did not - to learn that two of their citizens had been executed by firing squad in Indonesia overnight for drug offences. It has proved an emotional time, and the nation's politicians have followed the popular mood: Prime Minister Tony Abbott said today that he would withdraw Australia's ambassador to Indonesia, a move that was widely applauded in Australian media and among the public on radio and online comment sections.
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