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Simon Frost, a former Victorian Liberal Party chief and key adviser to former treasurer Josh Frydenberg, is chief operating officer for the Yes23 campaign for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and whistleblower Richard Boyle says he’s been wrongly denied protection under the Public Interest Disclosure Act.

Stella Assange said the screening is a ‘hugely significant’ moment in the fight to have her husband released from prison.

"If he goes down, so will journalism," Assange's father John Shipton says in the documentary.

In open letter, 48 MPs and senators warn ‘closest strategic ally’ that pursuit of WikiLeaks founder ‘set a dangerous precedent’

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Stephen Smith is to visit jailed Australian, Julian Assange, in custody. The Wikileaks founder continues to face

Stephen Smith reveals he will be the first Australian High Commissioner to visit Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in prison, as he sits down with the ABC upon commencing his new role in London.

The family of Julian Assange defended the WikiLeaks founder as an unfairly imprisoned journalist while opening up about their ongoing efforts to raise awareness about the case and the subsequent effects it could have on the free press.

Pressure is mounting on Anthony Albanese to ask the United States to drop charges against Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition in the British courts.

The former prime minister was humiliated by material the Wikileaks founder published in 2010, but still opposes his extradition to the US.

Julian Assange’s brother welcomed the apology but said he remained ‘gobsmacked’ by the book seizure at Parliament House in August.

The books were apparently confiscated due to their connection to a ‘Free Assange’ protest rally outside Parliament House — a rally Assange’s father and brother didn’t attend.