It must be a huge burden for Assange to carry the knowledge that WikiLeaks is partly (largely?) Peter Barry writes: It is a relief to have Julian Assange back on Australian soil. It is almost axiomatic that (if elected) the Coalition would declare that it’d been hoodwinked by some nefarious bastards and that nuclear power wasn’t really an option. Julia Bovard writes: I totally agree that legislation should require political donations to be transparent and traceable to something more substantial than a post office box. What is the function of political donations?