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Julian Assange Sydney Peace Prize: full audio

Yesterday at Frontine, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize gold medal for Peace with Justice. You can read our report of events here. Below you can find the audio of each of the speeches.

Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees, director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, gives his introduction:

Former SBS World News Australia presenter Mary Kostakidis next spoke, before presenting Assange with his award:

Julian Assange gives his acceptance speech:

We will be posting full video of the event soon. A write up of a Q&A section with Assange, which followed the speeches, can be found here (part I) and here (part II).