- I love reading books that make me angry. I guess it's a sign that I still possess a conscience, a brain, a strong sense of justice, and a measure of integrity. That's what being alive means.
- This book, published by the wonderful Monash University Publishing, is an exceptionally good and well-informed collection of pieces written by respected contributors who really know what they are talking about - lawyers, academics, journalists, psychologists and former politicians.
- The fact that Julian Assange is rotting in Belmarsh prison in London and facing extradition to the US for an undoubtedly lengthy incarceration is utterly shameful.
- Psychologist Dr Lissa Johnson’s contribution is powerful, but so are many of the others.
- As Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking says:
'Exceptional, illuminating, and deeply disturbing. With commanding breadth this superb collection highlights the dangers to democracy of proliferating information control and official secrecy, exploring the powerful transformative work of Julian Assange and Wikileaks in exposing dark secrets as an exemplar of Australian investigative journalism. His persecution is our shame'.
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