October
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Donald Trump’s secret sauce - he just gets very lucky
From The Apprentice to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, something always seems to turn up for Trump. But every gambler knows his luck will run out.
- Pamela Paul
June
‘You saved my life’: Assange thanks PM, lands in Australia
Julian Assange has personally thanked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for championing his freedom after he touched down in Canberra on Wednesday.
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- Andrew Tillett
Assange ‘won’t be silenced’ after guilty plea deal
Julian Assange is officially a free man, with the WikiLeaks founder now a convicted felon after pleading guilty in a remote US Pacific island courthouse.
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- Andrew Tillett
Inflation spikes to 4pc; RBA’s housing warning; Star’s new CEO
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Julian Assange to seek pardon after 15-year legal battle comes to close
The WikiLeaks founder will plead guilty to a single count of illegally disseminating US national security material and could return to Australia within days.
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- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Citizen Assange’s hero claim is forever tainted
WikiLeaks mainly benefited Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence. That leaves Julian Assange’s claim to be a hero of press freedom forever tainted.
- The AFR View
- Analysis
- Analysis
Julian Assange never accepted the ethics of journalism
Drawing support from the far left and right, the Wikileaks founder was more international political actor than reporter.
- Aaron Patrick
A timeline of Julian Assange’s legal saga
A deal has brought an abrupt end to an extraordinary legal saga that has raised novel issues of national security, press freedoms, politics and diplomacy.
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- Charlie Savage
May
High Court might rule on Assange extradition
Two judges at the High Court in London are set to rule on whether the court is satisfied by US assurances that Julian Assange, 52, would not face the death penalty.
- Michael Holden and Sam Tobin
April
‘Seize the moment’, Assange’s family urges Albanese
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said comments President Joe Biden on whether the US might drop its prosecution of Julian Assange were “encouraging”.
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- Andrew Tillett
March
‘His health is very risky’: Assange’s brother fears for his life
After returning from London and Washington, where he fought for US political support, the brother of Julian Assange warned the health of the imprisoned Wikileaks founder is declining.
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- Tom Richardson
Assange wins temporary reprieve from extradition to US
London’s High Court said the US must provide further assurances by April 16 that Julian Assange would not face the death penalty.
- Michael Holden and Sam Tobin
February
Assange too sick to attend last-ditch bid to halt US extradition
The imprisoned Australian founder of Wikileaks did not attend a high-stakes court hearing in London. But his supporters turned out in force.
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- Hans van Leeuwen
PM’s support for Assange wins praise from jailed Aussie’s wife
Ahead of a make-or-break court hearing next week, Stella Assange says she hopes Australia’s political track record will sway her husband’s American pursuers.
- Hans van Leeuwen
November 2023
New Origin offer; PwC’s political gift; Microsoft’s great escape
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May 2023
Assange lawyers open to plea deal for Wikileaks founder’s freedom
Stella Assange says a “political solution” is needed to end her husband’s incarceration, as Anthony Albanese says he has lobbied US and UK leaders.
- Andrew Tillett
April 2023
How gamers eclipsed spies as an intelligence threat
Forget everything you know about old school espionage – the trafficking of classified documents is now the domain of young people chasing clout on the internet.
- Jonathan Askonas
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
New IR laws will make companies an open book
Employers trying to escape multi-employer bargaining will have little choice but to reveal their business model to the Fair Work Commission.
- Steven Amendola and Brendan Milne
Military secrets leak marks a new step for social media
The latest devastating leak of US intelligence, in a chat room of irreverent young misfits, highlights the challenge in guarding documents the US shares with the roughly 3 million people with security clearances nationwide, writes Drew Harwell in Washington.
- Drew Harwell
Source of highly classified intel leak most likely American
Officials say the breadth of topics addressed in the documents, which touch on the war in Ukraine, China, the Middle East and Africa, suggest they were leaked by an American rather than an ally.
- Idrees Ali