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Kat Wong and Dominic Giannini

Australian MPs lobby US for Julian Assange to come home

Federal MPs from across the Australian political spectrum have united to call on the US government to end its ongoing pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, Labor MP Tony Zappia, teal independent Monique Ryan, Liberal senator Alex Antic and two Greens senators Peter Whish-Wilson and David Shoebridge are in Washington DC to lobby the government to abandon its extradition proceedings against Assange.

The Wikileaks founder is facing historic allegations of espionage.

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