When Julian Assange’s lawyer met Penny Wong
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Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak on Julian Assange
We would like to see Julian released. He's been in prison far too long. The indictment that he faces is a direct threat to freedom of speech, not just in the U.S., but globally. There are national reasons associated with the Australian citizenship that the Australian government ought to be doing this and we will continue to press them to do so. In the past, Penny Wong has said that there are limits to what diplomacy can achieve. Why can't this government bring home an award-winning Australian journalist? We are the US's closest ally. We've just signed a huge defence deal with the August deal with the United States. It was able to negotiate the release of David Hicks who
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