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Freedom at last for Julian Assange

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Original article by Andrew Tillett
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 2 : 26-Jun-24

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday after he was granted bail and released from Britain’s high-security Belmarsh prison, where he had been held for more than 1,900 days. Assange has agreed to a plea deal with US authorities that will end his 15-year battle to avoid extradition to the US on espionage charges. Assange is set to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence documents when he appears before a court in the US territory of the Mariana Islands on Wednesday. He is expected to be sentenced to time already served in the British jail, allowing him to return to Australia within days.

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‘Seize the moment’, Assange family tells PM

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Original article by Andrew Tillett
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 8 : 12-Apr-24

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed indications that US espionage charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could be dropped. President Joe Biden say he is considering a request from Australia to drop the charges, and Albanese says these comments are "encouraging". He adds that Assange has already paid a significant price and there is nothing to be gained by his continued incarceration. The family of Assange has urged the federal government to keep lobbying the Biden administration to drop the charges and its push to extradite him to the US Assange has now spent five years in Britain’s Belmarsh prison; he had previously live in the Ecuador embassy for seven years after requesting political asylum.

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‘Stop trusting Facebook’, whistleblower Frances Haugen tells Australian MPs

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Original article by Lisa Visentin
Brisbane Times – Page: Online : 22-Oct-21

Federal Liberal-National MP Julian Simmonds says regulatory intervention is needed to ensure that Facebook is more transparent about how it operates. His comments follow an online briefing to federal MPs by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who said they should not trust the social media company’s promises that it is trying to make its platform safer. Simmonds co-ordinated the briefing with digital advocacy group Reset Australia. Haugen attracted much attention when she recently appeared before a US congressional hearing.

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