That was an extremely intelligent suggestion from Mr Toad and one wonders why that action was not taken earlier (or maybe it was?)
It's the same in the UK. As soon as a UK (or Australian) citizen is arrested for some crime in a third world country the automatic assumpion of the Press and public seems to be that they are automatically innocent!
Can the Aussies on this site confirm that they expect the Australian Govt (and Taxpayer) to fund first class, expensive, lawyers for the defence of every one of their Citizens who is charged with a serious offence overseas?
I doubt it.
Maybe the girl is innocent. Whatever, it's still a pretty ott sentence by any country's standards.