Updated 12.02pm:Â Tony Abbott says Australia will withdraw its ambassador to Indonesia as the result of the execution of the two Bali Nine ringleaders.
"Australia has made the most strenuous possible representations on behalf of these men, and we deeply regret that these representations have been in no way heeded."
The Prime Minister describes the step as unusual and unprecedented.
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has never made any secret of his intention to see the executions carried out.
"They can ask for amnesty to the President. But I tell you, there will be no amnesty for drug dealers."
Tony Abbott says Australia respects Indonesia's sovereignty.
"But we do deplore what has been done, and this cannot be simply business as usual."
Emotions are running high across the Tasman.
There have been vigils in many parts of Australia.
Dozens have gathered outside the Indonesian Consulate in Melbourne. One person there made clear their opposition to the execution.
"I totally agree that there should be a swift and just sentences for those who smuggle drugs, but an eye for an eye is the quickest way to make the whole world blind."
9 News correspondent Oliver Peterson says Australia will be biting back once their bodies are returned home.
"The execution of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, in simple terms, could really fracture the relationship between the two nations. It may take a decade to repair."
But the Australian Prime Minister is confident the relationship can be restored for the benefit of both countries.
Mr Abbott says people are absolutely entitled to be angry, but care has to be taken to ensure anger does not make a bad situation worse.
"The relationship between Australia and Indonesia is important, it remains important, and will always be important, and will become more important as time goes by."
Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has deflected questions over the way Australian police handled the Bali Nine case.
She's been asked if the Australian Federal Police had made the wrong decision in tipping off Indonesian authorities rather than dealing with the heroin smugglers under Australian Federal law.
Ms Bishop says their involvement was reviewed a number of years ago and changes were made that were appropriate.
"I don't believe today is the time to look for recriminations, now is the time to be thinking about the Chan and Sukumaran families."
Julie Bishop describes what the men went through as a "ghastly episode".
"I'm obviously deeply disturbed at some of the aspects of how this was handled. I think the ghastly process that the family have been put through today just underscores how chaotic this has been."
27 minutes for deaths to be confirmed
Eight executions took place in Indonesia.
They condemned were killed one by one.
According to local media, it took 27 minutes after the shootings for all deaths to be confirmed.
The men's bodies have arrived back on the mainland from the island where they were killed.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the bodies will be transported back to Australia by Friday.
Michael Chan, the brother of one of the executed men Andrew Chan, has tweeted "I've lost my courageous brother to a flawed Indonesian legal system".
The mother of one of the Bali Nine pair due to face Indonesia's firing squad made a last ditch gut-wrenching plea for her son's life to be spared.
The families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran fronted media.
Myuran's mother Raji Sukumaran pleaded for her son not to be killed.
"I'm asking to the government to not kill him. Please President, don't kill him today. Please don't carry out the execution. Please don't kill my son."
His brother Chinthu said even as the time for his execution along with Andrew Chan and other members of the Bali 9 approaches, the family isn't losing faith.
"We still have hope, right up until the last second, that the President will see each of these people as individuals, with families that love them, and show mercy."
End the death penalty
Indonesia's Attorney-General is being accused of ignoring proper legal process.
Megan Tittensor says legal challenges to their sentences were still underway, but were ignored.
But she says it seems the Indonesian Attorney General was intent on execution.
"And he wasn't going to let proper legal process get in his way."
Andrew Chan's brother Michael earlier returned with the men's families from a final visit, saying they hope their legacy is the end of the death penalty.
"I saw today something that no family should ever have to go through. Nine families in a prison saying goodbye to their loved ones. And to walk out of there and say goodbye for the last time, it's torture. No family should ever have to go through that.
Lawyer Peter Morrissey says we need to point out to Indonesia what a disaster this has been.
"This has made the political class in Indonesia look terrible. It's made their justice system look like a dysfunctional, crooked and hopeless system."
He says the abolition of the death penalty would be the best way to mark the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
Peter Morrissey says Australia needs to point out to Indonesia what a disaster this has been, after the previous president had made improvements that were starting to make the justice system look good.
"I think honouring the boys, and staying mature and kindly is the way forward, and being morally consistent ourselves, that's the way forward."
Filipino woman sparedÂ
A last minute phone call saved the ninth death row inmate from execution in Bali.
Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina maid, has been spared thanks to a direct conversation between the Philippines and Indonesian Presidents.
CNN's Saima Mohsin says she'd always protested her innocence.
"Earlier today the alleged recruiter, believed to have recruited her unbeknownst to her, planting drugs on her person, came forward to the Philippines police."
Saima Mohsin says because of that development appeals were made once again - and an emergency cabinet meeting was held.
NZ condemns execution
New Zealand has condemned Indonesia's use of the death penalty for Bali Nine drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
The two Australians were executed by firing squad this morning.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully says our government is dismayed by Indonesia's decision.
He says New Zealand is strongly opposed to the death penalty in all cases, and under all circumstances.
And with New Zealander Antony de Malmanche currently before Indonesian Courts on drugs charges, Labour MP David Shearer says those sentiments need to be made very clear.
"The government needs to be both vocal in private and public, to ensure that this New Zealander has the best chance."
David Shearer says the two men sat on death row for 10 years, which in itself is inhumane, but appeared to have rehabilitated.
"Surely that's what a prison term is meant to do, both punish and rehabilitate. It would seem in this case the executions were completely a waste of time."
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