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Julian Assange

Also known as Julian Paul Assange, Assange, JulianAssange, Julian Paul Hawkins

Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)

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Julian Paul Assange is an Australian and Ecuadorian citizen born in Townsville, Queensland, on July 3, 1971. His birth name is Julian Paul Hawkins. He is a hacker, programmer, television producer, and television director. He is a member of the WikiLeaks Party and has served as an independent politician. His political ideology is libertarianism. He speaks and writes in English.

Assange was educated at Central Queensland University and the University of Melbourne. He is associated with the employer WikiLeaks. He has received the Sam Adams Award, the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, and the Sydney Peace Prize. He has been convicted of cybercrime. His places of residence include the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Magnetic Island, and Melbourne. He has been detained at HM Prison Belmarsh and HM Prison Wandsworth.

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Acting · Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/ ə-SAHNZH;[3] né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, hacker, and cypherpunk activist. He has a previous conviction for hacking, dating back to 1996. He founded WikiLeaks in 2006; the organisation came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. After the…

Known for

The Six Billion Dollar Man — Self2025
Julian Assange: Silenced2025
Ithaka — Self (archive footage)2022
Der Fall Assange: Eine Chronik2021
Julian Assange: Chronik einer Spionageaffäre2021
Julian Assange: The Price of Truth — Self (archive Footage)2021
Wikileaks – USA against Julian Assange2020
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange2020
The Assange Story — (archive)2020
XY Chelsea — Self (archive footage)2019

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Australia
Active from: 1971

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 707
Total plays: 1,022

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,620x
Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 32,031x
PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,374x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,478x
Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,379x

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Quotes

“We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.”
“You can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results, that should be the standard in journalism. You can’t do it in newspapers because there isn’t enough space, but now with the internet there is.”
“Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be seen, history must be preserved, and we will give shelter from the storm.”
“That’s arguably what spy agencies do — high-tech investigative journalism. It’s time that the media upgraded its capabilities along those lines.”
“The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a sense of mental independence. You're not swept up in the trivialities of a nation. You can concentrate on the serious matters.”
“It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Julian Paul Assange (/əˈsɑːnʒ/ ə-SAHNZH; né Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, programmer, and publisher who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a United States Army intelligence analyst: footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad showing war crimes committed by the U.S. Army, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won over two dozen awards for publishing and journalism.

Assange was raised in various places around Australia until his family settled in Melbourne in his middle teens. He became involved in the hacker community and was convicted of hacking in 1996. Following the establishment of WikiLeaks, Assange was its editor when it published the Bank Julius Baer documents, footage of the 2008 Tibetan unrest, and a report on political killings in Kenya with The Sunday Times. Publication of the leaks from Manning started in February 2010.

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