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Hero or villain, Julian Assange’s cause crossed the political divide

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Julian Assange affair stands at the awkward intersection of a country’s right to keep secret national security information and the public’s right to know what is being done by a supposedly accountable government.

The actions of Assange and WikiLeaks in publishing a massive trove of classified United States defence documents and...

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