It has nothing to do with loving the state, it has to do with this guy dealing in stolen merchandise and hoarding most of it and dolling it out over time to keep himself in the spot light.
Hi Golfy,
I think you are wrong. This might help.
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Statement of the Walkley Foundation Board
16 April 2019, Sydney
In 2011, Wikileaks, with Julian Assange as its editor, received a Walkley Award in Australia for its outstanding contribution to journalism. Walkley judges said Wikileaks applied new technology to “penetrate the inner workings of government to reveal an avalanche of inconvenient truths in a global publishing coup”. One of those many inconvenient truths was the exposure by video of US helicopter attacks in Baghdad that killed 11 civilians including two Reuters journalists.
Many mainstream journalists worked with Assange’s material to publish their own reports including media outlets such as the
Sydney Morning Herald and
The Age in Australia,
The Guardian in the United Kingdom,
The New York Times in the US,
El Pais in Spain,
Le Monde in France and
Der Spiegel in Germany. There has been no attempt by the US Government to prosecute any of those journalists involved.
The Government is relying on one allegation against Assange—that he helped Chelsea Manning crack a password to access a US government computer—to seek his extradition from Britain to America where, if successful, he seems likely to face other, more serious charges that would constitute a direct assault on fundamental press freedoms.
Julian Assange’s personality and his more recent actions do not weaken the principle driving the Walkley Foundation’s concerns in this matter: that when he released the original Wikileaks material in 2010 Assange was assisting a whistleblower to reveal information in the public interest.
Given the potential adverse impact of this extradition attempt on a free, healthily functioning media, the
Walkley Foundation Board urges the British and Australian governments to oppose Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States.
-ENDS-"
www.walkleys.com
All he is is a Journo who outed some yanks going into shady acts of war. BTW; The Walkley Awards is an Oz thing for outstanding Journalism. Assange is a Journalist.
Greg