A cross-section of Australian politicians are calling for Julian Assange's return to Australia. His father says he doesn't have hope, but faith, that it will happen.
John Shipton says hope is not a useful 'tool' as the legal case surrounding his son, Julian Assange, drags on.Wikileaks founder fighting extradition to the US, where he could face 175 years behind bars.One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts and Greens Senator David Shoebridge are rarely on the same page.But on Thursday, their eyes were fixed on a screen at Parliament House, listening to a presentation that seemed to have struck a chord across Australia's political divide.
"We all come in to it with preconceived ideas. They do as well, until they have an understanding of the lies that have been told about Julian. Then they start to get a realisation that there's a little more to this story than [they] thought," he says.
In 2019, Swedish authorities dropped a separate investigation into a rape allegation levelled at the Wikileaks founder. "But you don't want to go to Bali for your holiday, you don't want to go to Paris, you don't want to go to Rome, because they have extradition treaties with China. After a legal process lasting over a decade, he dismisses the value of optimism in ending his son’s incarceration.But asked whether hope sustains him personally, his response was simple.Mr Kenny says cross-party engagement, a feature in many democracies that have pro-Assange parliamentary working groups, shows the “underlying fundamentals” of the case transcended politics.“People on the left and the right of politics know that if they are to survive, we need a free press.
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