I have mixed feelings about what Assange did with the documents.
Re his rape charges I understood that the charges were dropped because
the Swedish law on what is rape is different to the UK.
The Swedish law defined it as rape because he did not wear a condom.
It was otherwise consensual.

Bezza,

Was Trump wearing a condom under his black silk pj's, or in the ladies change room? Since you can be accused of committing phoney crimes in other countries, maybe Sweden should charge Trump with rape. We'll never know!

Maverick,

To answer your 2 questions. NO and NO. Surveys tell us over 70% of Australians support Albo's action re; Julian Assange.

Assange is free thanks to Albanese - i.e according to Albanese.

The increasingly stupid PM is doubling down on stupid, associating with badman Assange, who still remains a disgrace to Australia, and an enemy of the West, particularly to our major ally, America.

I think it says a lot that as Assange is freed by a legal process in nations he is so critical of, real journalist Evan Gershkovich goes on trial in Moscow for alleged espionage in a nation that Assange never says a word against. As for the rape charges, it was the statute of limitations that stopped proceedings, not the strength of the case nor peculiarities of Swedish law.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd116x340eno

"Julian Assange is a criminal, a fabulist and an undisciplined, arrogant work-shy fraud who lacks an education while remaining a mannerless vulgarian". (Alan Howe, editor and journalist, The Australian).

ttbn,

Howe, an acolyte of the Murdoch Gutter Press, the slob should win bronwie points big time with that comment from his lord and master the Trump backer and lecherous old goat Rupert. Nothing to say about the thousands murdered by American mercenaries, and exposed by Assange through WikiLeaks, that's the real crime.

Fester, glad you are a legal expert on Swedish rape laws.