Assange's father to start legal action against Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop

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Julian Assange's father has engaged a silk to start legal action against Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop over comments relating to his political party's controversial visit to Syria.

John Shipton came under fire after the Australian WikiLeaks Party sent a delegation to Syria to meet accused war criminal, President Bashar al-Assad.

Mr Shipton is claiming that the comments made by Mr Abbott and Ms Bishop defamed him.

"Because of the defamatory statements made against myself by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, we have asked barrister Clive A. Evatt to begin defamation proceedings seeking $5 million in damages in each case," he said

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/assanges-father-to-start-legal-action-against-...

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I missed that rather important news.

Would it be Australian tax payers who could pay the 'financial' price for our PM's and Julie Bishop's words ?

[the_hawk*]

and you know who will end up paying because he has a big mouth

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and there are more ways we pay for what our PM says and does isn't there ...

[nevillesdaughter]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

I missed that rather important news.

Would it be Australian tax payers who could pay the 'financial' price for our PM's and Julie Bishop's words ?

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Julie Bishop also mentioned (this morning I think) the cost associated (public servant salary-wise) with communicating/handling discussions with Russia regarding the imprisoned Greenpeace activists.

I don't necessarily agree that a citizen should feel automatically entitled to their country's full resources regardless of what sort of bother they may or may not have landed themselves in, BUT for said government to be making veiled threats about paying for assistance from one's homeland is not my idea of community.

Marina.