Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wins the inaugural “Scott Morrison award” for shamelessly taking credit for something he had nothing to do with for his own politically motivated self-promotion.

Luckily, Julian’s wife Stella Assange has been honest and open about the facts, or at least as much as she can at this point, and she has said enough to make it obvious to anyone who has followed the case what the real reason is for Julian being free.

It is because the US knew they were going to lose the court case for Julian’s appeal for extradition set down for the 9th and 10th of July 2024. I knew and wrote about it on Wednesday the 26th of June 2024, before Assange finalised a deal with the US on Saipan Island, in an article titled “Why has US President Joe Biden given Julian Assange a get out of jail free card now?” which starts off:

On the face of it, there are two key factors for the US negotiating the deal and one key factor for Julian Assange accepting the deal.

Firstly, the US were almost certain to lose the next court hearing in the UK for their Julian Assange extradition attempt given the US had failed to give the UK court the assurances they asked for regarding Assange’s legal rights in the US. (Click here to read the article)

The SMH reported on Saturday (29th of June 2024):

On Thursday, a candid briefing in Washington, DC, revealed the thinking inside the US legal team. An email seen by The Washington Post showed that attorneys believed they were going to lose their case to extradite Assange to the US, making a plea deal a wiser choice.

“The urgency here has now reached a critical point,” the trial attorney wrote on April 4. “The case will head to appeal and we will lose.” (Click here to read more)

I published the below video on Wednesday the 26th of June 2024 titled “Julian Assange given freedom deal so the US and President Biden could avoid court loss embarrassment”

(Click here to watch the above video on my YouTube channel)

Anyone following Julian Assange’s court case knew the US would lose and the US knew it as well and they were the ones driving the plea deal with urgency to avoid going back into court for the appeal on the 9th and 10 of July 2024.

Losing in court would have caused international embarrassment for the US given they had been pursuing Julian Assange for over 10 years and it is the US who decided the drive the plea deal with urgency for their own benefit and solely for their own benefit.

The SMH reported (Saturday 29/6/24)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led a diplomatic effort over two years to resolve the long dispute and raised it with US President Joe Biden several times, but the Australian government had no part in the plea deal.

Australian officials confirm the agreements only fell into place early last week. That is when the government could be confident of arranging the VistaJet charter flight to the US territory of Saipan, the location chosen by the US Department of Justice for Assange to plead guilty to espionage.

Assange was adamant at first that he would not set foot on American soil and his team argued as recently as six weeks ago that he could appear in court by video rather than fly halfway across the world.

On this, however, the US would not budge. It was essential to the Department of Justice that Assange plead guilty to a felony – and the law meant he had to do this on US territory before a US judge.

Saipan, an island 3000 kilometres north of Cape York, was the compromise. The Assange team, with US counsel Barry Pollack as well as Robinson and her colleague Gareth Peirce, accepted this because it meant their client would not go to the US mainland and would be in Australian airspace as soon as possible after leaving court.

The Australian high commissioner to the UK, former foreign affairs minister Stephen Smith, had to accompany Assange on the flight. The ambassador to the US, former prime minister Kevin Rudd, arranged to fly to Saipan to meet the charter jet.

and:

Negotiations sped up at the Department of Justice, Robinson says, after the High Court decision. The plea deal had been talked about for more than six months, but the US side engaged in earnest over the past eight weeks. The Washington Post report helps explain why. Worried about the risk of defeat, the attorneys tried harder to reach a compromise. (Click here to read more)

The article I quoted from above starts off: “Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led a diplomatic effort over two years to resolve the long dispute and raised it with US President Joe Biden several times” but that achieved a big fat zero yet Albanese and the government are deceptively trying to imply it did achieve something.

It was the court case and only the case that achieved the result. So, people who supported Julian Assange and his court case can take the credit for Julian Assange’s freedom.

Anthony Albanese’s fake quite diplomacy achieved nothing because it didn’t exist except in Albanese’s mind.

Lawyer Jennifer Robinson 

A lot of people are referencing Julian Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson for thanking Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as proof Albanese actually did something to help Assange’s release from jail. 

Jennifer Robinson did give a gushing, almost embarrassing, thank you outside the court on Saipan Island on Wednesday (26/6/24) around midday as per the below video.

In the video Jennifer Robinson thanks Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for his “statesmanship, his principled leadership and his diplomacy” and she spoke further about what he did but gave no detail of Albanese doing anything except paying lip service.

Robinson then thanked Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and former Australian Prime Minister and now US Ambassador Kevin Rudd for “his adept diplomacy and relentless efforts in Washington that ensured this outcome”. And Jennifer Robinson also thanked Australia’s High Commissioner in London Stephen Smith “who’s tireless work enabled them to be there today”.

If I was a betting person, I would bet good money on the press statement Jennifer Robinson gave in the above video being drafted and counter signed by Kevin Rudd.

It was gushing, bordering on being embarrassing and full of lies. The speech would have also been gaslighting for people who know the truth of what Anthony Albanese and his government do to whistleblowers in Australia.

Given Jennifer Robinson thanks Anthony Albanese, Mark Dreyfus, Penny Wong, Kevin Rudd and Stephen Smith I would love to know what they did. They did very little except book the plane and take some happy snaps for self-promotion which is more evidence that Kevin Rudd or someone in the government helped draft the press statement Jennifer Robinson gave in the above video.

Remember the deal was only done when the US realised they would lose the court case as per the above lawyers email quoted in The Washington Post. And the deal was negotiated between Julian Assange, his lawyers and the US government.

That only left booking the taxi back to Australia for Anthony Albanese, Mark Dreyfus, Penny Wong, Kevin Rudd and Stephen Smith to do. The taxi being a jet rental costing $US520,000, ($A782,190) which Assange has to pay back to the Australian government and which he has already raised the money for.

I think Jennifer Robinson didn’t realise the support and goodwill afforded to Julian Assange by many of his supporters does not extend to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government who are a well-known haters of whistleblowers.

Jennifer Robinson played a huge role, over about 14 years, getting Julian Assange freed and I doubt she would have given much thought of any consequences of over doing the thank yous.

But by the next day Jennifer Robinson, less than 24 hours after Julian Assange arrived back in Australia, let Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the government know that Julian Assange was back in town as per the below video.

In the video at parliament house on Thursday (27/6/24) Jennifer Robinson gives PM Anthony Albanese, a known whistleblower hater, the middle finger by pointing out that war crimes whistleblower David McBride’s jailing is unacceptable. (Click here to see on Twitter)

Jennifer Robinson thanking the government for Assange’s release from jail and raising the jailing of David McBride at the same time would have been very embarrassing for the government.

Stella Assange sets the record straight and is more balanced and conservative in thanking people

In the below video at parliament house on Thursday (27/6/24) Stella Assange points out the breakthrough with negotiations with the US government only came after Julian Assange had won his right to appeal and his appeal was about to be heard in court. That is 100% consistent with what I have written above. 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government had no involvement in the court case so how can they claim any credit with Assange’s Freedom given the breakthrough was Julian being granted permission to appeal in the court case. 

Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong and Kevin Rudd etc taking credit for Julian Assange’s freedom when all they did was book the taxi

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has a team of media advisors backgrounding journalists with propaganda trying to take credit for Julian Assange’s release.

That is why we have seen headlines over the last few days such as “Freedom for Julian Assange is a quiet triumph for Anthony Albanese” (26/6/24) which starts off:

“The prime minister was central to paving the way for the Wikileaks founder’s release in a timely riposte to criticism of his leadership and style”

The whole article is dribble and propaganda, most of which would have been given to the journalist, Karen Middleton, from Albanese’s office staff, designed to promote the lie “The prime minister was central to paving the way for the Wikileaks founder’s release”

There is not one shred of evidence in the article of Albanese doing anything except paying some lip service over the last few years.

I regard Karen Middleton as one of the better journalists in Australia, but her article shows she is not immune to publishing an article that is not much more than a press release from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office.

All the quite diplomacy Anthony Albanese claimed they did achieved absolutely nothing. It was only when the US were faced with the reality that they would lose the legal case to extradite Julian Assange that they hit the panic button to do a deal to save face.

All the Australian government did was book and pay for the plane after the deal was done between the US and Julian Assange. This was for the benefit of the US as much, if not more, as Julian Assange. And Assange has to pay the government back for the cost of hiring the plane.

US Ambassador Kevin Rudd, while trying to take plenty of credit for himself, points to the Prime Minister as being a key player is Assange’s release. That’s fine if he wants to do that but show us the evidence. There is none.

Kevin Rudd was putting out the propaganda on Tuesday 25/6/24, as per the below message on Twitter by journalist Stephen Mayne, which is the day before Julian Assange was in court doing the plea deal. Stephen Mayne’s message is a total lie and total propaganda as we know from above it was the court case that drove the US wanting a deal to finalise the matter. Stephen Mayne probably got his “tip” directly from Kevin Rudd. (Click here to see it on Twitter)

At no stage did anyone in the government take a firm stand and demand Julian Assange’s release. Nor did anyone in the government even try to get Assange moved from the torture of the super max standard jail to a minimum security jail which would have made a huge difference to Assange’s physical and psychological wellbeing.

In the below message on Twitter (36/6/24) Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Penny Wong says the plea agreement “has taken careful, patient and determined diplomatic efforts to achieve this outcome”. Once again it is a total lie with the government trying to take credit for something they had no influence over.

At the time Wong posted the below message she would not have known what Stella Assange would say the next day exposing Penny Wong’s lie or that The Washington Post would publish the US Government lawyer’s email as quoted above which also exposes Penny Wong’s lie.

Jailing whistleblowers the Albo way

The purpose of this article is to shine a light on and expose the truth about Albanese and his government dishonestly trying to take credit for Julian Assange’s freedom.

Because if its left unchallenged it could impact on jailed whistleblowers such as David McBride and whistleblowers that are facing jail such as ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle.

Already Labor Party trolls on social media are using Julian Assange’s freedom to argue the government treats whistleblowers well because they helped get Assange out of jail.

They conveniently forget that the government just jailed whistleblower David McBride and are trying to jail ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle as per the below video titled “Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus lies, deceives and misleads parliament about protecting whistleblowers”:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government have legitimised Julian Assange with their attempt to take credit for his freedom which I expect to backfire badly when Assange starts to hold them to account for their corruption.

The chances would have to be high of there being a movie or book about Julian Assange’s jailing and release so Anthony Albanese and his government’s lies will be exposed then as well.

Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are all about transparency which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government know so if they want to take credit for Assange’s release let’s see the evidence.

There is no evidence and all Albanese and his government have so far pointed to as evidence is the past lip service they gave to the matter and their claimed so called “quite diplomacy” which achieved nothing because there was none.

I will finish off this article the same way I started it by saying based on the evidence above Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wins the inaugural “Scott Morrison award” for shamelessly taking credit for something he had nothing to do with for his own politically motivated self-promotion.

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