Last week we wrote about the nominees shortlisted for Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year for 2010 and the magazine has revealed the results of their readers poll with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange voted in by a huge margin.
This news comes through on the same day that Treasurer Wayne Swan told radio station 5AA that the Australian government are going to provide support for Assange. “[Assange] will receive full consular assistance and [the government will] do everything we can to ensure that he is dealt with correctly within the law of the land. That’s appropriate, we do that for any Australian citizen”.
“There are a range of issues here, there is a vigorous public debate about it, but we will always accord to Australian citizens the rights that they are due. We will do that as we have done for so many other people overseas who are in difficulties.”
Time readers gave Julian Assange 382,020 votes – over 200,000 more than second place getter Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey.
See the top 10 readers’ choices below:
1. Julian Assange
2. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
3. Lady Gaga
4. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
5. Glenn Beck
6. Barack Obama
7. Steve Jobs
8. The Chilean Miners
9. The Unemployed American
10. Mark Zuckerberg
Via Time Magazine and The Australian
