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Jennifer Robinson at Melbourne restaurant Farmer’s Daughters.

The international lawyer who specialises in breaking the silence

Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been at the heart of battles over press freedom and gender violence. She is sure of one thing: change is needed.

  • Cassidy Knowlton

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Tomas Kantor and Emily Havea are among five actors channelling the WikiLeaks founder in Truth.

What’s it like being Julian Assange? These actors are finding out

They might not look anything like him, but five actors get “in the guy’s brain” in a daring new play called Truth. So will he turn up to see the results?

  • John Bailey
Fitzroy pool

How people power, John Clarke and Julian Assange saved Fitzroy Pool

Thirty years ago, a Herculean community effort led by an unlikely band of campaigners stopped the site from being turned into a block of flats.

  • Rachael Dexter
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
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
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An Instagram photo posted on Tuesday, 23 July shows Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, wife Stella and children relaxing on a unidentified beach.

No, Brighton, Geoffrey Robertson is not buying a mansion for Julian Assange

The Brighton jungle drums are beating hard. But the famed human rights lawyer is not in the real estate business.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
The City Tattersalls Club at 194-204 Pitt Street, which is currently closed and being redeveloped into a a 50-storey mixed use tow. The club is being forced into a fire sale of its historic club to pay off debts caused by falling patronage and declining gaming revenue. Photographed in Sydney on June 27, 2024. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Goodbye to the City Tatts club and its 130 years of history

Sydney’s Tatts Club is a city institution.

Jane Hume, third from left, and other female Coalition MPs and senators arrive at the Midwinter ball.

Jane Hume is reunited with her Lycra buddy

Canberra is a small town, as the Coalition senator found when she relived a viral moment at the Midwinter Ball.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Julian Assange has become a Rorschach test, where people project onto him whatever they want to see.

We see what we want: How Assange became a political Rorschach test

The founder of WikiLeaks helped turned the concept of left and right-wing politics on its head.

  • Maher Mughrabi

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