
Australia is looking forward to welcoming Julian Assange “home” after his 14-year legal ordeal, prime minister Anthony Albanese has said, as the Wikileaks founder reached a plea deal with US prosecutors.
Mr Assange walked out of Belmarsh prison on Monday and boarded a flight from Stansted Airport at 5pm, ahead of an appearance later this week in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the Western Pacific.