 I introduce Father Dave Smith, who's a priest best known for his work with at-risk young people. He's a professional wuxer. He has been nominated three times for Australian of the Year. Father Dave fights for Julian Assange, human rights and interfaith issues. Thank you for doing this, Father. Hold it up. Bring him home. That's the message. And I'm bringing my iconic image of the crucified Assange with me as ever. Something done for me by my friend Luke Cornish. I appreciate some people see this as sort of a little blasphemous using the icon of the church to depict the suffering of Julian, but we forget that before the cross was an icon of faith, it was originally a symbol of imperial power. The cross was a way of killing people you didn't like and not just disposing of them efficiently, but of killing them slowly and publicly. It was a way, you think of the, after the revolt of Spartacus, 63 BC, 6,000 men crucified along the Via Rapia, a 200 kilometer stretch. You couldn't take your kids out for a meal without seeing this symbol in front of you, the suffering of people who opposed the empire. It was their way of letting us know that we are powerful and you are nothing. Who do you think you are to speak out against us to raise your hand, to raise your voice? This is what will happen to you if you oppose the power of the empire. I mean, empire's changed, but the message stays the same. And this is what we've seen for our dear brother Julian. It's been 12 years last Thursday. Last Thursday, 12 years that Julian was first taken into custody. 12 long years, I have a 13 year old daughter. She was one year old when Julian lost his freedom. And for what? For the sake of repressing the truth that he'd already told? No, for the sake of making a public example of him. For the sake of getting the message out there that the empire is powerful and you dare not speak the power. I mean, this is the age old battle. I don't want to sound like a Marxist, but what if you said that you say, the rich do as they will, the poor do as they must. This has always been the battle. People who have the courage to speak truth to power have always paid the price. And Julian has paid the price. But for God's sake, surely he's paid enough. Surely the time has come to bring the man home for the sake of his family, for the sake of justice, for the sake of this country. God bless him. God defend him. God strengthen them in body and in spirit. Strengthen his family. Bless his partner, stellar and his lovely children. Bless his father, John and his brother Gabriel. And Lord God, bring him home. Amen.