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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much for coming to this rally. Your presence here and your support in homes, workplaces, online and elsewhere
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is exactly what is needed to keep us strong. I really wish I could be with you in person.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.00,0:00:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't wait to be back in Melbourne, where I have fond memories of taking a tram up Swansea street,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dropping in at Trade's Hall, and having my favorite coffee at the new International bookshop.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though we are far apart at the moment, I follow news from home regularly.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been heartened, not just by the stories of support for our organization, but the stories of courage and kindness
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every day Australians are showing to one another during the floods. That too is a matter of confort
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to all of us who believe in basic human decency.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a journalist, I am used to reporting the news, rather than addressing rallies. But these are not ordinary times.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The times we are going through at the moment constitute a generational challenge
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US civil rights struggles of the 1950's also constituted a generational challenge,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.00,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as did the peace movement of the late 1960's, autonomous (?) movements in different periods of the 20th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the awakening of environmental consciousness that has taken hold in recent years.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.00,0:01:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the internet generation, this is our challenge, and this is our time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.00,0:01:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We support a cause that is no more radical a proposition than that the citizenry has a right to scrutinize the state.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The state has asserted its authority by surveilling, monitoring and regimenting all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the while hiding behind cloaks of security and opaqueness.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely, it was only a matter of time before citizens pushed back and we asserted our rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This brings me to another point. We at Wikileaks recognize the difference between secrecy and privacy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.00,0:02:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Individuals, not governments, have the right to privacy. Strong powers must be held to account
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while the weak must be protected. We believe in transparent power, not in transparent people.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We publish material that is in the public interest. For us, as the European Court of Human Rights
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.00,0:02:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the British Court of Appeals has held, the decisive factor in balancing the protection of private life
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.00,0:02:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against freedom of expression should lie in the contribution the material has to make to the debate of general interest.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is surely a matter of public interest that Australian politicians secretly briefed foreign embassies,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in effect providing them with political intelligence on the Australian government, while concealing these vital facts
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from those who actually elected them to office.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.00,0:03:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wikileaks has brought this important information to the public.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.00,0:03:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is surely a matter of public interest that the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.00,0:03:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been running a secret intelligence campaign directed at the leadership of the United Nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.00,0:03:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demanding passwords, DNA, personal encryption keys, credit card numbers,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.00,0:03:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,e-mail addresses and so on. That targeting is illegal under the 1946 UN Convention on Privileges and Immunities,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.00,0:03:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and illegal under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.00,0:03:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is surely a matter of public interest that the Labour government has been secretly working
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.00,0:03:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shield from prosecution Indonesian military figures who killed strangers (?) in East Timor.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.00,0:03:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wikileaks brought this information out to the public as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.00,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would appear that the Labour government today is doing what Labour did in 1975 regarding East Timor:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about human rights while trying to downplay a tax on journalists.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.00,0:04:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you and I should be in no doubt of one thing: we are a media organization,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a publisher, I am a publisher and I am a journalist. I've been a member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Australia's peak journalist's union, for years. I published my first book when I was 25.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.00,0:04:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has been outrageous and illegal calls to have me and my staff killed, clear cases of incitement to violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.00,0:04:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Australian government has condoned this behavior by its diplomatic silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.00,0:04:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find it interesting that some politicians have no intention of applying the precautionary principle
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.00,0:04:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it comes to the environment, but assert it when it comes to our reporting.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.00,0:05:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They conjure up hypothetical scenarios, claim that somehow, some day, our stories might somehow harm someone somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.00,0:05:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we have a 4-year publishing history, a history of not harming a single individual anywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.00,0:05:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They provide no evidence of actual harm. So I say to you: that which is asserted without evidence
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.00,0:05:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be dismissed without argument. And it is interesting how some politicians single out my staff and myself for attack
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.00,0:05:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while saying nothing about the slaughter of thousands by the US military or rather dictatorships,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.00,0:05:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and saying nothing about other, much wealthier, powerful news organizations that published material in partnership with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.00,0:05:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is cowardly to bully a small media organization, but that is what is happening here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.00,0:06:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are eternally grateful to your strong support in helping us stand up to the bullies.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.00,0:06:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Julia Gillard should be taking active steps to bring me home and to protect our people.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She should be contacting the US embassy and demanding that it back off.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.00,0:06:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As for the future, we are as determined as ever. With your help and support, we will make our way through this storm
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.00,0:06:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and continue to publish and hold powerful and abusive organizations to account.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.00,0:06:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to assure you that we will not mimic the timidity and subservience to power
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.00,0:06:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that some other media organizations have. If that is what it means to go mainstream,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.00,0:06:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we are happy staying where we are, at the front line of the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.00,0:06:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will, as Don Chipp dreamed, "try to keep the bastards honest."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.00,0:07:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have been deeply moved by the concern Australians have shown for us. But I ask that you turn your concern into action.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.00,0:07:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Insist that the attacks on my staff and organization stop. Insist that I be allowed to return home.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.00,0:07:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Insist that the Australian government come clean on all its interactions with foreign powers in relation to our organization.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.00,0:07:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you for your good will. We will keep the faith with you, and you will keep us strong.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.00,0:07:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[silence]