Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It might have been better to go to the Attorney-General on this. I don't immediately recall the case you are talking about. In relation to Mr Assange, I have made clear, as has the Prime Minister, that we do believe this matter has dragged on too long. We want this matter brought to a close and we have made statements, both privately and publicly, to that effect. The proposition that you have continued to put forward in this matter is that somehow the Australian government can interfere with a Department of Justice matter or with the UK legal matters which are before the courts and, as a former lawyer of some distinction, as you impress upon us—

That's unfair? He doesn't impress that on us? Okay, I won't say he impresses that on us; that's fine.