Schapelle Corby releases first image of herself on home soil

Published: May 29 2017 - 11:14PM

Rosleigh Rose reckons she doesn't know where her convicted drug smuggler daughter Schapelle is, and doesn't think she should sell her story to the media.

With tongue seemingly planted in cheek, the Corby family matriarch returned to her Loganlea home, south of Brisbane, from a trip to Beenleigh Shopping Centre to tell waiting media the 39-year-old was actually in Cairns.

"Didn't you know? She caught a flight yesterday to Cairns," Ms Rose said.

Ms Corby has posted an Instagram clip of her watching live television footage of two black vans on a motorway leading media on a false trail after she flew in from Bali.

The Instagram clip posted late on Monday night shows Ms Corby with a group of people in what appears to be a hotel room watching apparently live chopper footage from Channel 7's Sunrise program of two black vans taking a motorway offramp.

Asked whether she'd be going to see her daughter, Ms Rose sought to muddy the waters further.

"Um, I might have to go to the airport to get on a plane to Darwin, Cairns, Gladstone, wherever," she said.

Ms Corby has not been seen since returning to Australia early on Sunday morning, successfully evading dozens of media crews through the use of decoy car convoys, though it is thought she might be hiding out in Brisbane's Sofitel hotel.

The apparent cost of the security operation has only added to speculation she has sold her story to a major TV network, but Ms Rose said she was unaware of any such deal, and didn't think there was much left to tell.

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"That's her business and I think the answer would be no. Youse have told it a thousand times," she said.

Ms Corby earlier celebrated her first full morning back on Australian soil by posting the word "FREEDOM" under a shot of a colourful oil painting appearing to depict her riding a fantastical beast through a dreamscape on her Instagram account.

She has become a social media star since leaving Indonesia, amassing more than 153,000 followers on Instagram in the past two days.

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When asked by a follower whether she'd painted the artwork herself, Ms Corby replied cryptically: "I will tell you soon".

Her sister Mercedes used her own Instagram account to post a picture of a champagne toast at an undisclosed location.

Ms Corby was deported to Australia from Indonesia at the weekend, almost 13 years she was caught with 4.1kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag at Bali's Denpasar Airport.

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