I agree with David G. Australian government is wrong to not have protected him and to not complain with USA our alley of their wrong doing, as is tainting our integrity as a nation with relative consequences.
Australia sacrifice our best soldier, are dishonor as they work together, by the USA army Human Crime.
Their cover up is not different from the atrocity and lies done in many others country by them.
USA had done and is a great force for Human Right but is certainly tainted by many wrong doing.
How USA and others country are not condemn for the dealing with dictatorship: like the fallen Libya, Egyptian regime and country like Saudi Arabia where torture had been accurately well documented?
The American citizens are not informed of so much wrong doing, and like here they had not a real tool to confront our leaders when they are failing they promise or for wrong doing.
Democracy is not perfect! Abuse is a day business, Germany, Italy and many others nation had pay the cost for be silent and choice the wrong leader’s.
For me, I trust in Jesus who is alive.
Free Assang we need hero like him and the young man USA soldier, who is paying for the wrong of others .Him need a medal too.

... i dont think Jesus (or Julian for that matter) is going to come to the rescue luigi ... perhaps rather than divine intervention we should insist on government acting a bit more like (dare i say it) a responsible business (or at least a business that is held to account by the rules - not practices - of the ASX and ATSIC)...

... the way i see it, with government officials pandering to the electorate with populist crap like 'we are servants of the people' and 'the Australian electorate is my boss' (substitute US, British, Swedish etc ... anywhere pretending to be a democracy will do - i'm sure they all hear the same rhetoric) ... anyway, we should insist that they disclose spending by items (like what these wars are actually costing us) because as a taxpayer, it's me (and the rest of you guys who actually pay tax) who are footing the bill for such stunts ... and i cant say that i feel as though me money is being well spent ... or spent on the right thing .. and this is where WikiLeaks (and Julian being chief spokesperson) comes into it ...

supporting WikiAssange is supporting greater transparency of what the government is doing with their hard earned tax dollars ... that way i can feel as though i know where my money is going and they can continue to pretend we live in a democracy ... because at the moment we dont (by definition - 'electoral decisions made by an informed public' - as if!)...