NO, I’m not talking about the Dolly Parton song detailing the stresses of the 40-hour working week.

I’m looking today at the remaining five of the nine so-called Bali Nine.

They have just been transferred (note: not released) from one of the toughest prisons in Indonesia after discussions with Australian authorities and serving 20 years of a life sentence.

They were returned to Australia and held in a camp near Darwin for processing, whatever that entailed.

Many Indonesians thought that all that was happening was the remaining five were to continue their sentence in Australia instead of Bali where their offences occurred.

Clearly, they were not absolved from their crimes as one Indonesian official stated that “we transferred them all in the status of prisoners”.

At this point views are split.

Some say that serving 20 years in dodgy conditions was a reasonable penalty for their crimes.

They point out that four of them have died over there so their sentence was even greater.

Others will say they were sentenced to life behind bars with the possibility of a death sentence and it is not the place for Australia’s officials to override Indonesian law by swiftly releasing the five into our community.

The release of the Bali Nine into Australia brings into focus the apparent lack of respect for other nation’s legal systems and sentences.

It is being suggested that this political deal has benefits to Governments on each side of the discussion and was done for political reasons, with release just before Christmas being sold by each nation’s spin-doctors as compassionate.

Whatever the release was all about, we may never know, but it just continues our distrust of legal and political decisions.

By John BLACKBOURN