Greens Senator David Shoebridge tabled a petition in federal
parliament on 2 July, calling on the federal attorney general Mark
Dreyfus to refuse to extradite Australian citizen and former US
marine pilot Daniel Duggan in regard to having trained Chinese
nationals to fly in 2012.
At the time Shoebridge tabled the petition in the Senate, it had
been signed by 24,720 Australians, while three weeks on,
the online petition has garnered the signatures of 26,947
individuals, who are all pleading with the nation's chief
lawmaker to allow the father-of-six to return home.
Duggan was arrested by AFP officers in October 2022 in the NSW
town of Orange, where he lives with his family. The authorities
wouldn't tell him why he was being arrested. And he was then
placed in solitary in a maximum-security facility, where he was
also classified as "high-risk".
