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Less than twenty years ago Julian Assange was
sleeping rough. Even a year ago hardly anyone knew his name. Today he is
one of the best-known and most-respected human beings on earth. Assange
was the overwhelming winner of the popular vote for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” and Le Monde’s
less politically correct “Man of the Year”. If Rupert Murdoch, who
recently turned eighty, is the most influential Australian of the
post-war era, Julian Assange, who will soon turn forty, is undoubtedly
the most consequential Australian of the present time. Murdoch’s
importance rests in his responsibility for injecting, through Fox News,
the poison of rabid populist conservatism into the political culture of
the United States; Assange’s in the revolutionary threat that his idea
of publishing damaging documentary information sent by anonymous
insiders to WikiLeaks poses to governments and corporations across the
globe. THEMONTHLY
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