Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson’s plan to correct imbalance between public and private school education

Jennifer Robinson is often on the evening news. For three straight weeks last July, her image was beamed around the world holding actor Amber Heard’s hand as they made their way through sometimes hostile crowds into the Royal Courts of Justice in London where Johnny Depp was suing the Sun newspaper.

Who was this woman in the red power suit, the world wanted to know? She is, they would discover, an internationally acclaimed Australian human rights lawyer. Heard describes her as “the most important, treasured asset in my life as a human being, as a sister”.

For the past 10 years, Robinson has been filmed standing beside her client Julian Assange or visiting him in the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was holed up for seven years before his…