Australia tries its best to save drug smugglers facing death row in Indonesia: PM

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the country has "left no stone unturned" in its failed attempts to rescue a pair of Australian drug smugglers from death row in Indonesia.

"I just want to assure people that the Australian government has left no stone unturned to try to ensure that these two Australians on death row have their sentences commuted," Abbott told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.

It follows an Indonesian court ruling on Thursday that denied Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran the chance to have another judicial review of their death sentences, effectively meaning nothing will be able to stop their executions.

The pair were among nine Australians arrested in Bali over a plot to smuggle 8.3 kg worth of heroin from Indonesia to Australia in 2005.

As the 11th hour bid for clemency have since been rejected, Abbott reiterated that Australia was doing "whatever we humanly can" to save two Australians from the firing squad.

"We oppose the death penalty, we do whatever we humanly can to try and ensure that no Australian suffers the death penalty," said Abbott.

Earlier in Bali, a court spokesperson confirmed that their final applications for clemency had been denied and stated the pair would be put to death in the next round of executions, which are likely to take place within the fortnight.

"From the administrative (file) of the judicial review, according to the reasonings given, it has not met the requirements for the judicial review since no new evidence is provided by the convicts," the spokesperson said.

Meanwhile, in an interview with The Australian Financial Review that was published on Thursday, Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop did not rule out the possibility that the country would withdraw its diplomatic ambassador from Indonesia if the executions went ahead.

"We have to consider what would be in the best interests of everyone in this case and whether the withdrawal of an ambassador would actually achieve what we need to achieve, which is a change of attitude on the part of Indonesia towards the death penalty and the execution of Australians in these circumstances," Bishop said.

"We've made it clear that the convictions were only possible because of the cooperation of the Australian Federal Police and that there will be significant pressure on the government in relation to that matter in the future and that they were bringing drugs into Australia, not for distribution in Indonesia. So what that means is it is an issue for Australia to deal with," she added. Endi