Free Julian Assange from huge debt of USD 520,000 to rotten Australian Gov

How anyone with the least amount of human compassion and decency could bring himself/herself to bill Julian Assange for the US$520,000 that the Australian government says it paid for his charter flight home? Were it not for the likelihood that many thousands of people, who are sympathetic to Assange, are likely to raise the necessary funds, this bill could bankrupt him for the rest of his life.

The fact remains that, prior to Assange agreeing to plead guilty to the trumped-up charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defence information in breach of the US 1917 US Espionage Act as part of a plea-bargain deal, he had broken no British law.

Had the Albanese Government properly upheld its duty of care towards Assange in the two years since it was inaugurated on 23 May 2022 it would not have been necessary for Assange to have agreed to that plea-bargain.

Does the government really expect us to believe that a failure on its part to to recoup this money from Assange will cause a fiscal crisis? How many Australian taxpayers would actually resent Assange for supposedly having caused the government to spend what must be a miniscule amount extra in comparison to overall government expenditure, to finally get home again after his many years of wholly unjustified imprisonment?

Does Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, now that Assange has been persuaded to plead guilty to having committed a felony as part of the plea-bargain deal - instead of continuing to truthfully insist that he has broken no law - consider that, as a supposed felon, Assange is now under moral and fiscal obligation to him for supposedly, so graciously having helped bring about his freedom?

For finally having gained his freedom,after so many years of unjustified imprisonment, Assange is now expected to pay $520,000 for that freedom!

In reality he should be entitled to damages from the Albanese government for its failure to give him any helpful support for so long. He should also be entitled to seek damages from the British, US and Swedish governments for their shameful conduct towards him over the last 12 years.

At the very least, we and the Bring Home Julian Assange Parliamentary Support Group should expect from the Albanese government in Parliament tomorrow, a full explanation of all of its supposed actions on behalf of Assange since 14 February when Parliamnent passed that motion calling for Assange's freedom and we should expect the government to explain why it feels that it is entitled to hit Assange with that $520,000 bill after all he has been through.