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Old January 17th, 2023 #1
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Anthony Albanese's government set to open the floodgates to more than 300,000 migrants


A total of 365,900 temporary visa holders left the country between 2019 and 2021 after then-Liberal prime minister Scott Morrison told them to leave.

Anthony Albanese's Labour government is set to welcome 300,000 migrants to Australia this year - raising fears of increased pressure on housing, hospitals and schools. Treasurer Jim Chalmers admitted the forecast of 235,000 migrants made in October's budget is likely to be dwarfed as high labour shortages entice foreign workers to the country.

The government has also been working to cut down the huge visa backlog - making the country even more appealing to migrants. It has announced an increase in the number of places available for skilled migrants, the number of places in the Skilled Stream rising from 79,600 to 142,400. It will prioritise processing for skilled visa applications through 2023 and also introduced post-study work rights and unlimited work hours for international students.

Dr Chalmers said on Monday: 'It is a reasonable assumption the number that's printed in the budget for [2022-23] may be higher than 235,000. We've got serious skills shortages and labour shortages in our economy that are acting as a handbrake.'

Angela Knox, Associate Professor of Work and Organisation at Sydney University, told Daily Mail Australia that the influx of migrants could cause serious short term problems. 'In the short term, it would put additional pressure on housing and schools and hospitals, which are already struggling,' she explained.

She also suggested that the total number of migrants could exceed 300,000 - but warned the government would need to be mindful of the local labour market. 'The government are conscious of the tension between the domestic labour market and the introduction of any migrant workers and the consequences that that might have.

'The government is also relatedly very conscious that it is not using temporary migrant workers as a substitute for skill development and training needs in the local labour market. 'So they will monitor what's happening very closely and make adjustments on that basis.'

Dr Knox also warned that the government would need to ensure the current visa backlog is tackled. 'It will be really important to ensure that there are sufficient staff and workflows in place to enable efficient visas, issuing visas. We don't want that backlog to be further exacerbated. 'So there will be a response that's required in order to ensure that is an efficient process.'

However, she also said that increased numbers of migrants could eventually end up tackling the problem. 'Those problems are already occurring, and we need to take action in order to resolve them,' she said. 'And one way in which we can do that in a very immediate sense is by bringing in temporary migrants, so it is a way in which we can address the existing problems that we have.'

Immigration expert and former Immigration Department deputy secretary Abul Rizvi said the 300,000 migrants this financial year would be driven by a spike in visa applications for international students in 2022, and a large excess of visitors. 'The excess of visitor arrivals, minus the number departing, is the biggest difference we've ever had,' Mr Rizvi told the AFR.

A total of 365,900 temporary visa holders left the country between 2019 and 2021 after then-prime minister Scott Morrison told them to leave. Some 220,000 temporary visa holders have come into the country since the start of 2022 with applications to be processed.

There is a backlog of 872,000 visa applications yet to be approved by the government and another 2.22 million that have been made since June 1.



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Australia is nearing 50% non-white population.
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Old February 9th, 2023 #3
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Australia’s left-wing Labor government has announced the appointment of a new international Ambassador for Gender Equality.

According to Foreign Minister Penny Wong, “Promoting gender equality is a priority for Australia and central to Australia’s diplomatic, economic, development, and regional security efforts.”

To that end Canberra has announced Alaska-born Stephanie Copus-Campbell in the role.

Her task is to “deepen Australia’s international engagement on gender equality with her expertise in community development, gender equality and health. She will advocate the importance of women’s human rights, ending gender-based violence, women’s economic empowerment, and the leadership of women and girls,” Wong outlined in making the announcement. Copus-Campbell has worked in international relations and development in Australia, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Pacific region. Most recently, she was appointed by the Government of PNG as Chair of the Southern Highlands Provincial Health Authority and has served as Executive Director of the Oil Search Foundation.


Russia's Putin and a few former Warsaw Pact countries are the only national and world leaders outside of the Muslim world standing up against the sterilization of Children. And that is why the Western World is trying to force Putin out.

"To that end Canberra has announced Alaska-born Stephanie Copus-Campbell in the role"
Question: What is the best pick up line for Copus-Campbell?
Answer: So, have you always been a woman?

That "woman" has crazy eyes in the video. She looked demented. Perfect for the leftwing government of Australia.


This extremely scary looking woman is a nut job. Well done Australia. Her "goals" are actually opposing ones-you cannot say you are working to ensure all women succeed in an equal job market and then promote men who dress and act like women in the same breath. Women are women, and men are men-all others need serious self help.



Meet Australia’s New International Ambassador for Gender Equality
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Soon it will be a crime for a young person to be good looking, attractive and normal.
All left governments have the same agenda.
 
Old February 14th, 2023 #4
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Australia: Mother Denied Heart Transplant over Vaccination Status


Health authorities in Australia denied a mother her needed heart transplant after she received a medical exemption to forgo the coronavirus vaccine.

Vicki Derderian has relied on ventricular assistance for her weak heart after it failed in 2020. Due to her condition, she received a medical exemption from the coronavirus vaccine to avoid the off-chance she might get myocarditis or pericarditis.

When it came time to receive her desperately needed heart transplant, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services denied her. Per the New York Post:
Vicki Derderian, from Melbourne, relies on a ventricular assist device to keep her heart functioning after it failed in 2020, and is desperate for a transplant.

She did not receive the vaccine because she is concerned that doing so could increase her risk of heart conditions such as myocarditis or pericarditis which, although rare, can be serious.

Ms. Derderian, a mother of two, expressed her frustration with the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services for their stance, which she characterized as “no jab, no heart.”


Speaking with Channel 9’s Today Show, Derderian said that the vaccine mandates have interfered with patient-doctor relationships.

“The hospital stance at the moment is no jab, no heart. I‘m ready to be on the heart transplant list because medically I’m stable to be on it. But unfortunately, because of these mandates, it has interfered with patient-doctor relationships,” she said. “Patients like myself, we‘re being pushed into a corner and coerced to take something that goes against what we believe in,” she added. “Or not receive lifesaving treatment. And also for doctors as well, they are forced to implement this on their patients otherwise they’ll lose their jobs.”

Former Deputy Chief Health Officer Dr. Nick Coatsworth said that the greatest risk for Derderian would be to not receive the vaccine, potentially putting the transplanted organ at risk. “From a transplant physicians point of view… the biggest risk to you when we hit your immune system like that if you get Covid-19 without having the vaccine, then there‘s a really significant risk that you’ll die and that organ will die with you,” Dr. Coatsworth said. “And we don‘t want that to happen to you and we certainly don’t want it to happen to the family whose made that sacred donation. So it is such a complex area. I don’t envy your decision, but I do standby the rules of the transplant physicians have made here,” he said.



Has Australia read any of the new information regarding the jabs, like they are virtually useless for anything but depopulation.

Denied a heart transplant due to not having the shot that causes heart problems; good grief.

If you want to make money in the US stock market you go short on Life Insurance companies and long on Funeral Homes as the death rate among the 25- 45 yr old adult males is up by 40% compared to the average over the last 30 years.

Australian leaders went full globalist far faster than many of us thought they would. I am aware of what is going on in the world and why it is happening, but like many others we did not see this descent into darkness happening so fast in Australia of all places. The "quarantine centres" and the treatment of those anti-lockdown protestors at that war memorial was clearly their leaders wanting to be at the forefront of the dark world the globalists are preparing for us.

I hope that this lady gets her transplant. In the long run, you do not win any prizes for being a worshipper at the altar of globalism. The survivors of what they are doing to us will make sure of that. The few of us that are left standing that is.



Australia: Mother Denied Heart Transplant over Vaccination Status 14 II 2023.

Everywhere through out the world, the whole Medical profession keep up the Covid 'hoax'. They were not going to expose the Covid 'hoax' because they were being paid extra and if they had done so they would have lost their jobs.
 
Old March 27th, 2023 #5
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Default Labor backbenchers urge Australian Prime Minister Albanese to ‘stay true to his values’ on Julian Assange trial

Albanese and Assange



Assange taken by force by the Police from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.


New prime minister says ‘not all foreign affairs is best done with a loud hailer’ when asked if he will intervene on behalf of the WikiLeaks cofounder



Australian government backbenchers hope the new prime minister, Anthony Albanese, will stay “true to his values” and press the US to drop the case against Julian Assange. Albanese has previously expressed concern about the US government’s efforts to try the WikiLeaks cofounder in connection with the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as diplomatic cables. Albanese said in December 2021 he did “not see what purpose is served by the ongoing pursuit of Mr Assange” and that “enough is enough”.

Change of government would present ‘great opportunity’ in fight to free Julian Assange, his father says. But Albanese has kept his cards close to his chest since being sworn in as prime minister. When asked this week whether he would encourage the US to drop the charges against the Australian citizen, the Labor leader said: “My position is that not all foreign affairs is best done with the loudhailer.”

Labor MP Julian Hill, an active member of the cross-party Australian parliamentary group pushing for Assange’s release, said he was hopeful Albanese would pursue the matter. “Albo is a man of integrity and values and I’m confident, of course, that he will be true to his values,” Hill told Guardian Australia. “There are members of the Labor caucus who have had an active involvement in the Assange group based on these critical principles – press freedom and fighting against the chilling effect on the media that this persecution would have – and would hope that our government could achieve an outcome.”

In April a court in the UK formally approved the extradition of Assange to the US on espionage charges, but it is up to the home secretary, Priti Patel, to sign off.

Hill said he believed “that the Australian government needs to advocate to our now-Aukus partners and bring this matter to an end”, but acknowledged achieving a breakthrough for Assange may be “difficult”. Hill, a Victorian MP, said he had held a “very consistent” and principled position for years about the damaging effect of the case on press freedom. He said it was “unacceptable” that while the person who leaked the material had had her sentence commuted and was now free, “the person who published it is being handed over for deportation to an effective death sentence”.

Assange is alleged to have conspired with army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password hash to a classified US Department of Defence computer, a US Department of Justice statement said. Manning was released in 2017, when Barack Obama commuted his/her 35-year military prison sentence in one of his final acts as president.

Australia’s new minister for foreign affairs, Penny Wong, said before the election that regardless of anyone’s views about Assange, the case had “dragged on a long time”. “Certainly, we would encourage, were we elected, the US government to bring this matter to a close,” she said during an election foreign policy debate at the National Press Club on 13 May.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was contacted for comment on Wednesday.

Press freedom advocates and human rights groups have raised fears the prosecution of Assange under the US Espionage Act sets “a dangerous precedent”.

Daniel Ellsberg – the whistleblower prosecuted 50 years ago for releasing the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam war – said last month: “This extradition would mean that journalists, anywhere in the world, could be extradited to the US for exposing information classified in the US.”

In April, Assange’s father, John Shipton, said the election of a Labor government would be a “great opportunity” to free the WikiLeaks co-founder. Shipton said he had had several lunches with Albanese and had been assured the then-opposition leader would do “whatever he can” to free his son.

The White House has previously declined to comment on the Assange matter, telling reporters it was an “ongoing criminal case” and the president, Joe Biden, was “committed to an independent Department of Justice”.

The US offered a number of assurances that were crucial to a successful appeal against an earlier British court ruling blocking his extradition.

Extraditing Julian Assange would be a gift to secretive, oppressive regimes
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These assurances included that Assange would not be subject to “special administrative measures” or held at a maximum security “ADX” facility and could apply, if convicted, to be transferred to a prison in Australia.

In mid-December, P M Albanese responded to that British court ruling by saying: “I’ve said for some time that enough is enough … He has paid a big price for the publication of that information already and I do not see what purpose is served by the ongoing pursuit of Mr Assange.” The previous Australian government under P M Scott Morrison repeatedly stared down calls to intervene, saying it was monitoring the Australian citizen’s case closely but would “continue to respect” the legal process as Australia was “not a party to the case”.



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What is the US regime is doing to this man, a journalist and a reporter? The US is at war with our ability to know what they do in our name. They are at war with us and with all humanity.
 
Old March 27th, 2023 #6
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Anthony Albanese's government set to open the floodgates to more than 300,000 migrants
Needless to say, Albanese is pro-Chinese:

Albanese Says Australia to Focus on Restoring Trade With China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...uverify%20wall

'If there's an invite, then I would accept': Anthony Albanese declares he is willing to travel to China as he prepares to visit India

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia...25b37165200d54


Yeah, funny how all these anti-white politicians in the West who are working to destroy white countries with third-world immigration also want stronger ties to China's mass-murdering communist regime. This is one of the reasons why I despise the retarded and/or dishonest pro-Chinese fake "White Nationalist" shitbags who keep telling us to support Xi Pingpong because he's allegedly going to save the world and crush jewish globalism.


 
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Default Assange Campaign The Official Australian Website in Support of Julian Assange


Welcome to the Australian Assange Campaign.
We thank you for joining us in our efforts to raise awareness about the plight of WikiLeaks founder, and former Editor-in-chief, Julian Assange.

Our goal is to ensure Julian’s freedom.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s comments in parliament on Friday 9 November 2022 are a significant step forward towards the end of the unrelenting incarceration of journalist and publisher Julian Assange













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Default The Worst Deal Ever - Australia To Pay U.S. For Nuclear Insecurity


The AUKUS deal.


The the last week's review I mentioned the AUKUS deal. It was first announced in September 2021. Back then I wrote: Same two winners - Banking and the Military Industry, and losers - ordinary people in the country of Australia and all the world.Yes - both Canada, along with Australia and most of Europe are vassals of the USA financial system - ponzi scheme... it can't end soon enough.

It is almost like this is an intentional take down of the World - by the WEF. This stupidity defies logic. It is hard to understand this all, as a reflection of ignorance, and more willful intent on the part of a small group. I know.. conspiracy theory territory, but still.. it is off the charts insane!

Australia currently has six conventional submarines. It had ordered new ones from France but scrapped that deal for AUKUS:

The price for the new submarines Australia will have to pay will be much higher that for the French ones. Some $3 billion have already been sunk into the French contract. France will rightfully demand additional compensation for cancelling it. The new contract with the U.S. or UK will cost more than the French one but will only include 8 instead of 12 boats. As three boats are needed to keep one at sea (while the other two are training or in refit), the actual patrolling capacity for Australia's navy will sink from 4 to 2-3 concurrent submarines at sea.

The much higher price of the fewer more complicate boats will upset Australia's defense budget for decades to come.

I further suggested that blackmail may have played a role in the AUKUS deal.

A few day's after the announcement there were new details publish which suggested that Australia would lease nuclear submarines from the U.S. because the new ones will take many years to build. It would upgrade Perth harbor to be able to handle nuclear propulsion boats:

Perth will thereby be build up into a base that is compatible with the likely permanent stationing of U.S. nuclear submarines. These carry nuclear weapons. The 'leased' boats, or at least their propulsion parts, would of course be still manned by U.S. or British sailors. The Australians already have problems retaining crews for their existing submarines. The few that will be available for the 'leased' boats will not be enough to run them. The Australians would pay largely for the privilege of being guests on board of doubtlessly U.S. commanded submarines.

Australia's overall position did not look well: Australia's extraction boom fueled by China's rise is coming to an end. The country will have to cut its budget and will need to seek a new economic model.

But why did I call this a "huge but short term win" for the U.S.?

It is a win in that the U.S. has gained a submarine base in Australia and will get paid for using it. This looks well if the intent is to wage a cold war on China. It is doubtful that this is a necessary strategy and it is equally doubtful that it can be successful. The weapons manufacturers will of course still love it.

But it is a only a short term win in the sense that the U.S. will lose many of its current and potential future partners over it. It has degraded its QUAD partner India and Japan to second tier status. It has increased suspicion in Indonesia, Malaysia and even Singapore of eventual nefarious plans against them.

In May 2022 Australia elected a new parliament. Labor replaced the Liberals in the government. It found that the new submarines and the whole deal was extremely expensive. That was the chance to bury it: The answers are obvious. Ditch the whole AUKUS deal and buy the German U-boats.

The real reason for the deal might well have been the U.S. wish for a port and base in Australia from where it can send its own nuclear submarines to harass China.

The offer to Australia to buy nuclear submarines was likely only made to remove Australian public resistance to the stationing of nuclear submarines (with nuclear weapons) on the continent. Australia will be better off without those.

But Anthony Albanese, the new Prime Minister, did not have the courage to push for ending the deal. Last week the three involved countries announced new details:

Australia’s nuclear submarine program will cost up to [AUS]$368 billion over the next three decades, with confirmation that the federal government will buy at least three American-manufactured nuclear submarines and contribute "significant additional resources" to US shipyards. The Australian government will take three, potentially second-hand Virginia-class submarines early next decade, pending the approval of the US Congress.

There will also be an option to purchase another two under the landmark AUKUS defence and security pact, announced in San Diego this morning.

In the meantime, design and development work will continue on a brand new submarine, known as the SSN-AUKUS, "leveraging” work the British have already been doing to replace their Astute-class submarines.

That submarine — which will form the AUKUS class — would eventually be operated by both the UK and Australia, using American combat systems.

One submarine will be built every two years from the early 2040s through to the late 2050s, with five SSN-AUKUS boats delivered to the Royal Australian Navy by the middle of the 2050s.

Most curious is the buy of second hand Virgina class boats. A leasing agreement would have been much better. Nuclear driven submarines are extraordinary expensive to scarp. Their 60% enriched Uranium fuel will have to be guarded for a very long time. Australia has no experience with anything nuclear.

The former Australian prime minister Paul Keating has called the agreement the worst deal in history: Paul Keating has labelled the $368bn Aukus nuclear submarine plan as the “worst deal in all history” and “the worst international decision” by a Labor government since Billy Hughes tried to introduce conscription. The former Labor Prime Minister launched an extraordinary broadside against the Albanese government at the National Press Club on Wednesday, blasting the “incompetence” of Labor backing the decision to sign up to AUKUS while in opposition and when it had “no mandate” to do so.
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The $368bn being spent to acquire as few as eight nuclear submarines – Virginia class and next-generation SSN-AUKUS submarines – was the “worst deal in all history”, he said, because it could buy 40 to 50 conventional submarines instead.

Keating also revealed that France, which lost a contract for conventional Attack class submarines in favour of AUKUS, had offered “a new deal” for the “newest French nuclear submarines”.

These would require only “5% enriched uranium, not 95%, weapons grade” and came with a “firm delivery date” of 2034 at “fixed prices”, he said. The French received “no response”, Keating claimed.

James Acton, an expert a nuclear defense policy, commented on the deal:

(((James Acton))) @james_acton32 - 20:16 UTC · Mar 13, 2023
As @POTUS, @RishiSunak, and @AlboMP announce AUKUS submarine plan, here’s my assessment of the technical and proliferation risks.

BLUF: They’ve made serious efforts to mitigate those risks, but those that remain are real and significant.

Link to video of announcement
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Here’s the plan (in brief):
1. 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸 deploy SSNs* in🇦🇺(from 2027)
2. 🇦🇺deploys Virginia-class SSNs purchased from 🇺🇸 (from ~2032)
3. 🇦🇺deploys AUKUS SSNs, designed and produced with UK (starting in early 2040s)
*SSN=nuclear-powered attack sub.
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Acton details the risks of the deal. They are huge. Next to financial, technological and timing risks there are also the proliferation issues. The deal is defying the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and should Australia get an exception for the deal from the IAEA others will make similar requests.

I responded Acton's second tweet: Moon of Alabama @MoonofA - 20:24 UTC · Mar 13, 2023
1. is what the U.S. wanted from AUKUS.
2. will be with mostly U.S. crew and under only nominal AUS command.
3. is way too costly for AUS and will never happen.

Australia will spend billions to upgrade naval base HMAS Stirling in Western Australia so the U.S. and UK can use it for their rotational stationing there. It will 'invest' more billions in nuclear shipyards in the U.S. and UK. It will pay billions for the Virginia class boats over which it will have little sovereignty.

Submarine designs are long complicate programs. It took 35 million labor hours design the first batch of Virginia-class boats and it took nine million labor hours to build the first one. The new SSN-AUKUS will have similar costs and issues. I for one expect that none will ever be build. Neither Australia nor the UK have the money for them.

Still - the political fallout will come from all sides.

With this deal Australia is essentially paying the U.S. an exorbitant price to confront Australia's biggest customer, China. Its neighbors are unhappy. Indonesia is making noise about the proliferation risk as is Malaysia. Europe is miffed that Australia scrapped the deal with France and rejected the new French offer. The deal does not increase Australia's security.

Labor party members, who saw the
(vid), will come to understand that their party leaders made the wrong decision.

What will it take to reverse it?


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AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER Anthony Albanese has said there is “nothing to be served” by the ongoing incarceration of Julian Assange as he expressed frustration at the United States’ continuing efforts to extradite the WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen.

Albanese’s comments in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) interview appeared to escalate diplomatic pressure on the United States to drop the charges against 51-year-old Assange, who has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison fighting extradition to the US.

Before that, he had taken asylum for seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Albanese said Assange’s case had to be examined in terms of whether the time Assange had “effectively served” was in excess of what would be “reasonable” if the allegations against him were proved.

“I just say that enough is enough. There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration,” Albanese said.

“I know it’s frustrating, I share the frustration. I can’t do more than make very clear what my position is and the US administration is certainly very aware of what the Australian government’s position is.”

Mr Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the US, where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse that stem from WikiLeaks’ publication of a huge trove of classified documents in 2010.

American prosecutors allege he helped US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.

To his supporters, Assange is a secrecy-busting journalist who exposed US military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Albanese said there was a “disconnect” between the US treatment of Assange and Manning. Then-US president Barack Obama commuted Manning’s 35-year sentence to seven years, which allowed her release in 2017.

Albanese said he has advocated for Assange in meetings with US administration officials.

He declined to say whether he would raise Assange with US President Joe Biden when Albanese hosts the US leader along with leaders of India and Japan in Sydney on 24 May.

“The way that diplomacy works … is probably not to forecast the discussions that you will have, or have had with leaders of other nations,” he said. “I’ll engage diplomatically in order to achieve an outcome.”

Albanese said he did not want to get into an argument about whether Assange’s alleged actions were right or wrong.

Albanese noted a British district court decision, since overturned, that rejected the extradition request on the grounds that Assange was likely to kill himself if held under harsh US prison conditions.

“I am concerned about Mr Assange’s mental health,”
Albanese said.

“There was a court decision here in the United Kingdom that was overturned on appeal that went to Mr Assange’s health as well and I am concerned for him.”


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Default Australian Lawmakers to Travel to U.S. to Lobby Against Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange



CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – A group of Australian lawmakers said Tuesday they would travel to Washington this month to lobby the United States to abandon its efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The delegation includes former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and five other lawmakers from across the political spectrum. Their trip is timed to draw attention to the issue ahead of a planned visit to the White House in late October by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Independent lawmaker and delegation member Monique Ryan told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. they represented a large group of lawmakers who feel “really, really strongly about the importance of securing Mr. Assange’s freedom.” Ryan said Assange was in poor health which made the matter more pressing.

Assange, an Australian citizen, has spent the past four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison fighting extradition to the U.S. He has been charged with espionage for publishing classified military and diplomatic cables through WikiLeaks. If found guilty, he could face a sentence of up to 175 years in prison.

The effort by the Australian lawmakers is the latest in a series of international moves raising questions about the extradition. Pope Francis met with Assange’s wife Stella in June, which she said was evidence of his ongoing support for the family’s plight. In May, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free Assange.

Before he was incarcerated, Assange took asylum for seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in an attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Sweden dropped that investigation in 2019 because so much time had elapsed.

Greg Barns, a human rights lawyer and Assange campaign adviser, said most Australians believed the matter should come to an end. “Julian should be immediately reunited with his wife and children,” Barns said. “That can only happen if the U.S. Department of Justice drops its extradition bid at once.”

The delegation plans meet with members of the House and Senate as well as the State Department and Justice Department. They will also meet with organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Assange’s brother Gabriel Shipton said even Australians who didn’t support Assange’s actions believed he had suffered enough and should be set free.

American prosecutors allege Assange helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.


I fail to see the case against Assange. It is a state wielding massive power against a citizen of another state.

The person who actually stole the materials has been pardoned by Obama. Assange is only the media publisher which is a lawful occupation.

Britain’s ‘woke’ courts now more or less automatically block the deportation of Third World illegal invaders back to their own countries on the grounds that those countries are Third World banana republics with corrupt judicial systems, where they would face political persecution and would never get a fair trial.
The politically-motivated show trials of Donald Trump (and the refusal of US ‘law enforcement’ to take any action over the criminal activities of the Bidens) now puts the US firmly in that category.
Julian Assange now has strong grounds for asserting that he would never get a fair trial in that corrupt, Third World banana republic.




Australian Lawmakers to Travel to U.S. to Lobby Against Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
07 IX 2023.


The UK should not be complying with this crazy vindictive extradition appeal. Where's the human rights in this?



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