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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Foreign Minister Bob Carr has rejected criticism the government has done nothing to help Julian Assange fight his extradition from the UK to Sweden.
Assange lost his British Supreme Court extradition appeal on Wednesday, but lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder have indicated they will seek to have the appeal reopened.
Queensland-born Assange, 40, has been fighting a Swedish request that he be extradited from the UK for questioning over allegations of sexual assault against two women in August 2010.
Assange’s mother, Christine, flew to London to be with her son for the judgment.
She criticised the Australian government’s lack of help.
“(They have been) absolutely useless,” she told ABC Radio on Thursday.
“They’ve done everything they can to smear Julian and hand him up to the US.”
Ms Assange believes her son would have greater legal protections if he was fighting the extradition from Australia.
Senator Carr said Mr Assange was receiving regular visits from Australian consular staff.
“He gets the full Australian consulate support available to any Australian caught up in the legal processes of another country,” he told Sky News.
Australia’s hands were tied, the foreign minister said.
“We can’t interfere with the legal processes of another country,” he said.
WikiLeaks has long expressed concern that if Assange is sent to Sweden, Stockholm would quickly send him on to the United States.
But Senator Carr noted a report that said the US Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich, had said his country has no interest in extraditing Mr Assange.
The Australian Greens dismissed the ambassador’s comment as disingenuous.
The government needed to say it would not tolerate Assange be extradited to the US, Greens MP Adam Bandt told reporters in Canberra.
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