The father of Anna Wood, 15, who died taking ecstasy in 1995, condemned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s campaign to repatriate the remaining members of the Bali Nine, saying: “That Albanese is a dope.”

Tony Wood, 82, said the return of Scott Rush, Matthew Norman, Si-Yi Chen, Martin Stephens and Michael Czugaj from Indonesia on Sunday, “Is not something I agree with one bit.”

“What right has the Australian Government got to bring them back, so they don’t die in a squalid Bali jail?” he asked.

Speaking from his home in North Manly, Mr Wood, who says he still feels the ripples of ripples from Anna’s death almost 29 years later, added: “It’s people like them, the Bali Nine, who bring drugs into the country and, every once in a while, a user has a bad reaction to it and gets caught out and dies. I think of Anna every day, they say time heals but you never get over losing a child.

“Organising the return of the Nine should never have been a focus for Albanese, that man is a dope, a fool, he’s not very bright.”

“The rest of them should have stayed in Bali to serve the rest of their sentences there. We don’t want them here,” he said.

Anna Woods remains the most recognisable face in Australia’s ecstasy debate.

On October 21, 1995, she snuck out with mates to a rave at the Phoenician Club in Sydney, where she took an ecstasy tablet purchased by a female friend outside.

The morning after she began feeling unwell and was taken back to a friend’s house where she lapsed in and out of consciousness, before collapsing.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/albanese-a-dope-anna-woods-father-con...

You are a sycophant for the LNP ya smacking dickhead....You only criticise Albanese because he was succesfull were the arseholes you support were not....Were is the condemnation of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, and Scott Morrison who failed in their attempts to get these Australian's released from prison....Why don't you criticise all the politicians who have advocated on behalf of the Bali 9 you ignorant wanker???

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Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 10:51am:


You should be condemning the LNP as well you soft cock as they also advocated for the release of the remaining Bali 9....The overdose on ecstacy you are using to get an emotion has nothing to do with the Bali 9 dickhead.... If any of the LNP Prime Ministers had been succesfull in securing the release of these Australian's you would have had nothing but praise....You really are a low life sycophant using the plight of Australian's to attack Labor and Albanese aren't you arsehole???

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the father sounds like a moron

Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 9:41am:


What a load of crap. Anna took an ecstasy tablet at a rave club. Then she consumed a whole lot of water to compensate for her feeling dehydrated. Anna died from water intoxication. Had she the intelligence to not take the ecstasy tablet in the first place, Anna would be alive today.

Whilst I would have sympathised with Mr Wood back in the day, I cannot see how the Bali 9 remnants could seriously be held accountable for Anna's death in 1995. From what I understood, the ring leaders of Sukumaran and Chan had threatened to kill the family members of the reluctant couriers, if they did not go along with smuggling the drugs into Australia.

If anyone ever watched the interviews of the families of Sukumaran and Chan, they seem to be a bunch of pathological liars. At least Chan's family have shown that they had accepted Andrew's fate. But the Sukumarans put on such a drama, and their body language showed that they were sociopaths that I have no doubt that they were unworthy of using facilities in Australia to finish their gaol sentence.

Mr Wood should be aware that Anna's decision to take an ecstasy tablet was her own doing. Had her friends been a bit more aware of Anna's condition, Anna should have been in hospital a lot earlier. Better yet, they could have dissuaded Anna from taking the tablet in the first place. There is no use blaming drug dealers and drug couriers for the deaths of drug users, when the demand for illicit drugs are there.

The Indonesian president has done Mr Albanese a big service by allowing this repatriation of prisoners to Australia. I suspect Mr Wood wants to top up his pension by using the death of his daughter for his own financial gain.

John Smith wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 6:04pm:


Mr Wood is heartless for using his daughter's death 29 years ago in a publicity stunt. Mr Wood obviously will never blame his daughter for taking the tablet.

Reading the comments here - you all look like a pack of vicious, heartless scumbags.... and I agree with Armie ..

I reckon the Bali Bunch could benefit from a stay in Gon'mo... they'd be acclimatised ... rather than a sweet ride in the community here ... out on parole and leading the good life... they did it to themselves.

philperth2010 wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 11:08am:


You come across as being like those MAGA cult morons who believe wholeheartedly that Trump can do no wrong, only in your case you've got a serious hard-on (probably quite literally, given your "soft cock" comment) for Albanese. You're also blind, because I did criticise several Coalition leaders over their support for bringing those idiots home. You're just attacking me for the sake of it. I have zero tolerance for people involved in illegal drugs, period. Doesn't matter which side of the political aisle our pollies are from. Grow up and grow a brain.