CITATION: Julian Assange

Julian Assange has been recognized for his contribution to systems for bringing powerful organisations to account for the abuse and misuse of those powers.

Wikileaks provides an effective means for public officers to make disclosures without identifying themselves, a necessary avenue in environments where such public officers are dealt with oppressively.

With the whistleblower remaining anonymous, the organisation at issue is disabled from attacking the whistleblower - this leaves the media to focus the attention of the public on the disclosures.

The State of Queensland, Mr Assange’s home State, exemplifies a jurisdiction caught in systemic corruption of its governance and justice systems.

The recurring disclosures of wrongdoing have claimed the careers of our finest public officers, such as Inspector Colin Dillon, and mines inspector Jim Leggate.

The international notoriety given to the destruction of the Heiner documents by the Queensland Cabinet, and the death in police custody of Mr Doomadgee, may demonstrate the needs of communities under allegedly corrupted administrations of police, justice and the Crown.

Wikileaks can attract the attention of the world to the injustice, gross for a supposedly democratic State, that the local politicized media may not address.