The federal attorney general has used her mercy powers to pave the way for two Indonesian children to overturn a shocking miscarriage of justice that caused their wrongful imprisonment as adult people smugglers.
The boys, both aged 15, were among hundreds of Indonesian children who were found on asylum seeker boats between 2010 and 2012 and wrongly deemed adult people smugglers by Australian police.
Children who were suspected of crewing asylum seeker boats were supposed to be sent home. Many were from desperate backgrounds and had been either tricked or coerced into boarding.