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(117,949 posts)August 18, 2013 · by davidjackmanson
Just two days after Wikileaks Party Senate candidate for Victoria, Julian Assange, raised eyebrows by praising US anti-abortion politicians Ron Paul and Senator Rand Paul, the Wikileaks Party revealed a new attempt to appeal to the far Right. In official election tickets lodged with the Australian Electoral Commission, they have said they want the fascist Australia First Party, the pro-shooting-in-National-Parks Shooters and Fishers Party , and the mens rights activist Non-Custodial Parents Party to win a seat instead of the Australian Greens. In New South Wales, if you take the easy option and just tick the Wikileaks Party box in the Senate, and if they dont win, your vote will go to those three right-wing parties before it goes to the Greens ...
The Wikileaks Party has given no more details about this supposed error. However rumours about this preferencing arrangement have been circulating since at least Sunday August 11, when Greens activist and councillor Max Phillips says he was told by a Wikileaks Party member at the Marrickville Markets that the Right-wing preferences were going to happen because the Greens are our competition ...
This seems certain to prevent the Wikileaks Party from winning a seat. While their preferences in Victoria arent offensive to potential left-wing supporters, that detail is likely to not matter to people angry about the NSW decision, and its Victoria where Assange is running ...
Assange was never likely to win a seat anyway, even if the Wikileaks Party hadnt angered people today with their preferences. But now their chance of getting anyone who thinks of themselves as Left to co-operate with their organisation long term is zero. (If Assange is serious about seeing the libertarian right-wing as the wave of the future, perhaps they dont care). But where are they going to get volunteers to come to long, boring meetings on winter nights? ...
http://ausvotes2013.com/2013/08/18/the-wikileaks-party-lurches-to-the-right-preferences-fascists-mens-righters-and-gun-lovers-above-the-greens/