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Gabriel Shipton at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, February 2025.

How Julian Assange’s brother and a crypto artist raised $74m to free him

Gabriel Shipton and the cyber artist Pak joined forces to create an NFT artwork that played a major role in securing the WikiLeaks founder’s release.

  • Karl Quinn

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Bali Nine member Matthew Norman

Calling time on the remaining Bali Nine members

The remaining five members of the Bali Nine have returned to Australia, but nobody is the wiser about the deal struck to secure their release.

  • The Herald's View
Hunter Biden arrives at federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, in June.

Biden strains the quality of mercy by pardoning his son Hunter

President Joe Biden said he would not pardon his son, but his backdown sets a new low in American public life.

  • The Herald's View
Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by Indonesia in April, 2015.

Time to come home for the Bali Nine, left doing hard time in Indonesia

Hope grows for remaining Bali Nine prisoners to return to Australia to serve their sentences.

  • The Herald's View
John Shipton, father of Julian Assange.

Julian Assange’s dad thanks Vladimir Putin for his ‘support’

John Shipton is in Moscow doing the rounds of Russian media to coincide with an international summit.

  • Rob Harris
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, delivers a speech beside his wife Stella Assange at the European council in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.

‘Let us stop gagging … and killing each other’: Assange breaks his silence

The 53-year-old WikiLeaks founder has spoken publicly for the first time since being freed from a UK prison after pleading guilty to US charges.

  • Rob Harris
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Julian Assange (left) and father John Shipton in Melbourne

Family photo shows Julian Assange lying low in Melbourne

Assange’s brother says the WikiLeaks founder is adjusting to life outside prison and readying a bid for a presidential pardon.

  • Matthew Knott
Julian Assange

Hero, villain, or both? Untangling Assange’s divisive legacy

The Herald published two opinion pieces on Julian Assange. One was objective – the other revealed a superior tone conveying mockery, derision and oversimplification.

Julian Assange: from teen hacker to cause célèbre.

Difficult, paranoid and polarising: Dissecting the contradiction that is Julian Assange

The messier parts of his story are inconvenient for some of Assange’s supporters. It shows how hard it is, in the modern world, to advocate for a flawed man.

  • Jordan Baker
Illustration: John Shakespeare

Assange may be out of jail, but in Australia he’s on probation

Is Julian Assange capable of actual, ethical journalism, and how will he repay the Australian government for its intense efforts in his cause?

  • Peter Hartcher

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/wikileaks-1m39