Supporters and family members, including his father, John Shipton, and wife, Stella Assange, have gathered in Canberra to welcome him
Julian Assange is on his way to Australia where he will be reunited with family after accepting a plea deal that brought his 14-year legal saga to an end.
after pleading guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified defence documents Assange is travelling to Australia aboard a private chartered Bombardier jet, with his legal team, the ambassador to the UK, Kevin Rudd, Albanese had taken up the issue with the US president, Joe Biden, and politicians from across Australia’s political spectrum last year went to Washington to lobby US decision-makers to free Assange.“It means getting the job done, getting results and getting outcomes, having the determination to stay the course. And I’m very pleased that on this occasion, this has been a successful outcome that I believe, overwhelmingly, Australians did want to see.
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