Last night in Sydney around 200 people protested outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in support of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. I spoke about the importance of an organisation that deeply challenged the power elites in both politics and the media.
A key speaker was David Hicks, the former innocent Guatanamo Bay detainee who was tortured by America with Australian complicity. His speech, filmed on my iPhone, was moving and eloquent: