WHEN an alleged sex offender facing extradition quotes Rupert Murdoch in his defence and Jemima Khan offers herself as bail, then the world is surely changing. In 1958 young Rupert wrote, "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win." One Aussie will always back another Aussie against the world. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi!

Julian Assange faces the strangest set of sex charges I have ever seen, and I have seen a few. When one thinks of Sweden, one thinks of tanned women frolicking in the pine forests, naked as babies, spraying Norsca under their blonde hairy arms and posing for Ingmar Bergman home movies – a twig breaks, a startled deer looks up. Another Australian hero, Geoffrey Robertson, QC, of Palm Beach and Balmain, drops his towel and daks in the sand, and rushes to London to assist Assange in answering non-hypothetical allegations of sexual assault. Oi, Oi, Oi.

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As world powers gather in unison to put as many fingers as they can in the sprouting dykes that WikiLeaks has opened up on the information superhighways, it becomes clearer that Marshall McLuhan was absolutely correct when he wrote that "the medium is the message".

Assange writes that the site was designed from the start to draw down upon itself the entire wrath of the state to demonstrate in action the Mr Hyde behind the mask of servility. Julian A is really V, the character from the comic-book series and movie V for Vendetta, created by writers Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and The Matrix-making Wachowski brothers.