Handing over top secret documents is a crime be to a web site or a bed partner. Some US politicians wanted Assange to face the death penalty and he did not hand over secret documents but merely published them. Broadsheet media also published the same material yet did not face the same hostility. Snowden and Manning never profited from their leaks yet one is doing 35 years. Strange world.

Yes it is a strange world Geo,  I am of the opinion that Snowden etc deserve medals

It would seem Us Justice similar to the rest of the Western world do hand out a lesser sentence for plea bargain.

Abby and geomac ....they need to get off their butts and collect the tax that multi nationals are not paying, get rid of Negative Gearing and Salary Sacrifice and a lot of loopholes for the big end of town.

Also reduce a lot of the unnecessary aid to the world and process the boat people here in Australia instead of paying billions for other countries to do it.

Then slowly increase GST say 1% each year for a few years to 15% and quickly the budget would be returned to the black.

Ahhhh Water Dragon, how refreshing to see someone who WANTS to throw away what few breaks we do get on taxation and actually PAY MORE to our Federal government - you must have a FAR higher opinion of them than me.