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• Australia: A bomb in every download - Julian Assange against the world
  26 March, by siawi3

  WikiLeaks has not come out of the blue. It is a product of our time and would not have succeeded without the climate created by the corporatising of information and the ‘war on terror’. Governments increasingly want to control information, corporations increasingly want to own information, and the media is increasingly unable to give the public the information that they need. WikiLeaks, as an electronic commons for free information, is a way around that undemocratic information lock.

• New Australian PM Squandering Leverage on Assange
  25 May, by siawi3

  Anthony Albanese, the newly-elected Australian prime minister, may have passed up the best opportunity he will ever have to exchange Julian Assange’s freedom for Australia’s continued cooperation with U.S. aims in the Pacific region.

• Julian Assange: Does Wikileaks founder have a powerful ally in new Australian PM?
  19 June, by siawi3

  “This endless Snakes and Ladders legal situation takes its toll on him. It’s punishment by process. This man is suffering.” “People should be able to expose war crimes, they should be able to publish about government corruption or torture. Julian’s prosecution means that… journalists can’t do their job, and that’s a threat to democracy.”

• Australia: Julian Assange’s family says federal election result brings renewed hope for WikiLeaks founder’s release
  19 June, by siawi3

  “It’s not just about Julian, it’s about all of us, and I think people around the world are starting to realise that and they’re making their voices heard” . The family of Julian Assange is hopeful the election of a federal Labor government will pave the way for the WikiLeaks founder’s eventual release and a return to Australia.

• Australia won’t conduct ‘megaphone diplomacy’ on Julian Assange amid calls to intervene
  19 June, by siawi3

  Labor government urged to do more to stop Australian WikiLeaks co-founder’s extradition to US from UK

• Australia: Julian Assange’s brother urges Anthony Albanese to publicly condemn US extradition
  22 June, by siawi3

  Successive Labor and Coalition governments have not made his situation a priority, and so the question now is whether the new Albanese government will.

• Australia: INSIDE LABOR’S ASSANGE GAME PLAN
  20 July, by siawi3

  Surely we are entitled to see that the Government has done as much for securing Assange’s freedom from our alleged ‘great ally’ as it did for other ‘political detainees’ of non-allied regimes, like Peter Greste jailed in Egypt, and Kylie Moore-Gilbert jailed in Iran.

• Australia: Julian Assange’s family urge Anthony Albanese to intervene before US extradition
  7 August, by siawi3

  John Shipton, Assange’s 77-year-old father who has been leading the campaign to bring Assange home to Australia, described the possibility of delaying intervention until Assange was tried and convicted in the US as “grotesque”.

• Australia: Assange family barred from taking book about WikiLeaks founder into Australia’s parliament
  7 August, by siawi3

  Assange’s family and supporters visited parliament on Thursday to urge the Albanese government to intervene in the proposed extradition of the WikiLeaks founder from the UK to the United States. They were carrying copies of a book on Assange’s case by Nils Melzer, the former United Nations special rapporteur on torture, which they intended to give to MPs and media.
  “It just blows my mind. This is the sort of thing that we see in Trump’s America, that we criticise in China. What is our parliament afraid of that we can’t bring a book in?”

• How blackbirding in colonial Australia created a legacy of racism
  7 August, by siawi3

  Slavery and its consequences – both in Queensland and in the American South – obsessed Australia’s founders, and fundamentally moulded the country they created.

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