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Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face charges.
Joyce has penned an opinion piece for the Syndey Morning Herald stating that he believes a trial to be held in the UK or for his return to Australia, as Assange wasn’t on American soil at the time the alleged espionage offences occurred.
As an individual, whether you like him or despise him, it is beyond him, given his circumstances, to protect his rights by himself. So we must hope for the British courts to do so, and we will judge its society accordingly.
I have never met him and, from observation, don’t respect him. I presume I would not like him. And I view these facts as a clarion call to be all the more vigilant that he is treated just as one of my most powerful colleagues or dearest friends would be.
It’s disappointing that another week has passed, and there’s still no indication [of] the NSW government stepping in and doing the right thing...
The NSW government has been refusing to commit to providing workers and commuters with basic guarantees around hygiene, safety and privatisation for many months now...
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