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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Henry Belot

‘Human body can only take so much’: home in Australia, remaining Bali Nine face their new normal

Denpasar, Bali, April 23, 2005. Scott Rush gets a kiss hello from his mother Christine at Bali police headquarters. Rush is now in Australia.
Denpasar, Bali, April 23, 2005. Scott Rush gets a kiss hello from his mother Christine at Bali police headquarters. Rush is now in Australia. Photograph: AAP

On Sunday afternoon, the Bishop of Townsville received an anonymous text message he’d spent nearly two decades waiting for: “Wheels up, the Bali 5 are on their way back to Australia”.

Timothy Harris, who provided pastoral care to the families of Scott Rush and Michael Czugaj after their arrest in 2005, immediately called Scott’s father, Lee. A short time later, they confirmed a plane carrying his son had landed in the Northern Territory.

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