Finally, the government has helped Julian Assange. Well, the Abbott government

The decision of the United Kingdom High Court to allow imprisoned Australian publisher Julian Assange to appeal his extradition to the United States is partly due to the actions and policies of the Australian government.

Not the Albanese government, which has — we’re told — ineffectually lobbied the Biden administration to drop its long-running attempts to prosecute Assange for his journalism. Anthony Albanese can say “enough is enough” as often as he likes but he lacks either the capacity or the willingness to genuinely pressure the Americans.

Instead, it’s the Abbott government that has, a decade later, played a role in Assange’s appeal.