The activist's family are hoping Anthony Albanese will step in as a deportation deadline looms.
After more than a decade spent trying to avoid extradition from the UK, Julian Assange is running out of time and options.
But Mr Assange's supporters say the reports exposed US wrongdoing in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and were in the public interest. The comment has buoyed Mr Assange's family, with Mr Shipton saying it represents a huge shift from the position of previous governments. It's a particularly sensitive problem as it involves two of Australia's closest allies and - as the previous government often pointed out - it is a legal matter."That doesn't mean to say that - at this very pointy end - the Australian government is not able to start to make political representations.""There was some speculation that the Biden presidency could see the government take a different view on Assange," Prof Rothwell says.
"He had similar depression and Asperger's syndrome as Julian and Theresa May rejected that extradition because the care that he needed he would not be able to get in the US prison system," Mr Shipton says.Protestors across the world have called for the UK Home Secretary to deny the extradition request
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