The Latest Breaking News from Julian Assange

Giving his strongest comments on the case to date, Anthony Albanese tells the ABC he is "frustrated" the US government is continuing its prosecution of Julian Assange despite being "very aware" the prime minister opposes his ongoing incarceration.

The US justice department has acted appallingly in the Assange case. If he can be prosecuted, so can journalists everywhere

The law is clear. If you mishandle, distribute or disclose classified information you can get in big trouble. In the worst cases, as with Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who has been accused of divulging top secret national security documents, you can be arrested, charged under the Espionage…

Penny Wong responded to her critics by laying out the role Australia must play in the world as she sees it, in order to shape the future.

The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks

Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the government will continue to press for the release of Australian journalist Julian Assange.

Call them whistleblowers or traitors, call their actions conscientious or unconscionable, the people who decide on their own to share classified material have often altered the course of events.

The leak of highly classified Pentagon documents has forced defence officials into the online worlds of gamers, meme lords and their leagues of followers, and exposed an unavoidable weakness in US national security.

The gaping holes that Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden poked into what America assumed were secure, firewalled troves of classified data taught Washington a sobering lesson about the importance of keeping secrets leakproof.