Julian Assange is an Australian journalist,publisher and citizen,and he’s facing 175 years in a US prison if he is extradited there from Britain.
For such a high-profile Australian,our political leaders have been remarkably silent on his fate – save a few notable exceptions.
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One of those exceptions is Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce,.
Today on Please Explain,foreign affairs and national security correspondent Anthony Galloway joins Bianca Hall to discuss Assange’s case,and Mr Joyce’s intervention.
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