Pirate Party Australia once again reiterates and echoes the calls of Geoffery Robertson QC, that the Attorney-General and Prime Minister must move to ensure that Julian Assange, as an Australian citizen is afforded the full protection and support of the Australian government in his ongoing legal battle, in order to ensure that due process is observed.

Both the Attorney-General and the Prime Minister have previously made statements, later grudgingly qualified, regarding the legality of both Assange and Wikileaks, that have been extremely prejudicial to the Australian citizen and any future judicial process he, or Wikileaks volunteers may face. Investigations by Australian Federal Police have subsequently cleared Assange’s activities as completely legitimate — there has been no violation of Australian law.

The ongoing and arbitrary financial blockade of the whistleblowing organisation is nothing more than financial terrorism. Whilst Pirate Party Australia has no direct affiliation with the organisation, we have consistently supported strong whistleblower protection and transparency laws.

Ongoing calls by prominent US politicians inciting violence, proclaiming that an Australian citizen should be extrajudicially murdered or brought to trial by an administration that shamefully continues to hold an alleged whistleblower in degrading and inhumane conditions is simply another reason why the Australian Government must afford every available protection to Assange.