1. good morning,my #Australian #FOIA hearing took place last night (CET time) in #Canberra: I am represented by the excellent #Australian lawyers,@BarnsGreg and @peterbolam. @BarnsGreg grilled @dfat which refuses to release me the #FOIA docs on Julian #Assange. 
2.I've been fighting my #FOIA litigation in #UK,#US, #Australia,#Sweden since 2015 to access the full documents on #Assange & the #WikiLeaks journos to reconstruct the case factually:without hard facts,we just have opinions,uncertainty and the government can manipulate us at will
3.#FOIA is one of the very few tools that we investigative journalists have to unearth facts and reconstruct facts thoroughly and rigorously. Never leave facts in the hands of the government: it will manipulate facts at will to fit its agenda
4. My lawyers @BarnsGreg and @BolamPeter and I expect a ruling by the #AustralianAdministrativeAppealsTribunal in 3-4 weeks
5. you may think my #FOIA battle in #UK,#US,#Australia,#Sweden has achieved little: quite the opposite, I've obtained very important info on #Assange and current/ex #WikiLeaks journos: @khrafnsson,#SarahHarrison,@SwaziJAF,which I reconstruct in full in my English book (Nov.2022)
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