Central Coast For Julian Assange

20/09/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/20/the-australia-us-alliance-has-long-gone-unchallenged-the-delegation-to-free-julian-assange-changes-that?utm_term=650a5226aa0e95a838ca40ba91e159d4&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTAU_email

The Australian politicians pushing for Assange’s release represents a rare crack in the wall of bipartisan support for the sacrosanct alliance

14/08/2023

14/08/2023

From Crikey Worm today: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could get a David Hicks-style plea deal with the US that would see him return to Australia, United States ambassador Caroline Kennedy has told the SMH ($). She said such a resolution to the Department of Justice’s case against him is possible despite US Secretary of State Antony Blinken coming across hard-lined about the matter. Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton said Kennedy’s comments show the US wants to be done with the 13-year-long saga, but what would that look like exactly? Law expert at the ANU Don Rothwell told the paper the US could downgrade Assange’s 17 espionage charges for a guilty plea — he’s already done four years in a UK prison, and the rest of the sentence could be done in Australia. But Assange fans might say it’s hard to imagine him ever pleading guilty, or going to the US to do so.

08/08/2023

From a Crikey reader today: What is it about Australia — and Marles in particular — that is so pathetically wet when it comes to standing up to America? Manning, the original leaker, had her sentence commuted. Not one single American has been harmed as a result of the release of those WikiLeaks files. And yet it still pursues Assange. Why? Because he has embarrassed our US overlords with clear evidence of their war crimes.

03/08/2023

This is horrifying. We must double down on our efforts to

Moving from ambiguity to clearer opposition to the Australian government’s position suggests the US may have decided to prosecute Assange despite Australian objections.

02/08/2023

Disgraceful that America pursues that man!