WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the Gillard Government is secretly providing the US with information about Australians working with the whistleblowing group.
In an exclusive interview screened on SBS's Dateline on Sunday, Mr Assange said Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Attorney-General Robert McClelland were "pretending to be hands off" because of Australians' strong support for WikiLeaks.
"There is assistance to the US - and that needs to come out," he told Dateline co-host Mark Davis.
"Gillard, McClelland need to reveal all the assistance given to foreign countries against Australians involved in WikiLeaks."
Despite his distrust of the government, Mr Assange expressed a desire to return to Australia, where he said, along with Iceland, backing for WikiLeaks was the "strongest in the world".
"[The community] is quite protective to our endeavours," he said, adding that WikiLeaks' revelations concerning Australia were far from finished.
In the wide-ranging interview, Mr Assange also discussed WikiLeaks' role in sparking the turmoil in Egypt and Tunisia, his soured relations with The New York Times and The Guardian, and his battle to prevent extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations.
Also on Dateline
Egypt crisis: Video journalist Amos Roberts was shot at, tear gassed, attacked, detained and interrogated while reporting from Egypt for the program.
But despite the intimidation from the military intelligence and Hosni Mubarak's supporters, he gets inside the protest movement against the president's 30 years of authoritarian rule.
New look
And the program also has anew look, with presenter Yalda Hakim in the chair this week, introducing her story on exposed CIA spy Valerie Plame.
She's also been speaking to the Dateline website for a special behind the scenes feature on what's in store.
