No support from PM for an Australian under siege
January 7, 2021 12.05am
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Julian Assange has been offered consular assistance which in reality has meant no assistance at all ( PM won t seek US pardon for publisher , January 6). Our record in helping stranded Australians has not been good. Did consular assistance help David Hicks, the Bali nine, Mamdouh Habib – all Australian citizens who were abandoned by our government?
Assange s crime: exposing the truth about Americans gunning down innocent journalists and seriously wounding two children in Iraq. Like John Howard, all Scott Morrison had to do to bring Assange home was to pick up the phone. The recently departed great journalist Alan Ramsay was quite correct when he once described our relationship with the USA as America s tea lady .