Australian MPs to travel to US to fight pursuit, extradition of Julian Assange

Barnaby Joyce, second left, and other members of a delegation to secure the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Lukas Coch/(AAP Image via AP)

A multi-party delegation of six Australian politicians will travel to the United States to push for an end to the pursuit of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The US has pushed to extradite Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen, after his website WikiLeaks published thousands of US documents in 2010, which included a cache of military and diplomatic files, some of which were classified.