Prime Minister Julia Gillard says any representations she makes to Indonesia on behalf of Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine will be done in private.
Ms Gillard will visit Indonesia next week on the way back from the East Asia Summit in Vietnam.
Corby is trying to have her 20-year sentence for drug smuggling reduced, while three members of the Bali Nine are still facing the death penalty for their role in a smuggling plot.
Ms Gillard told ABC News 24's Chris Uhlmann that it would be inappropriate to say if she was going to lobby Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on behalf of the Australians.
"Clearly, Australia does not support the death penalty - that is our position as a nation," she said.
"But when it comes to advocacy on behalf of individuals, it's certainly in the best interests of those individuals to be doing those discussions privately, rather than publicly, and I intend to."
Source: ABC News, October 28, 2010
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