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Julian Assange – a force to be reckoned with in Australia’s 2013 Senate election?

Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate seat
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/julian-assange-to-run-for-australian-senate-seat/story-fncynkc6-1226565414301
 30 Jan 13,   JULIAN Assange will run for a Senate seat in the 2013
federal election and his mum reckons he’ll be awesome.
Christine Assange has confirmed her son’s candidacy, after WikiLeaks
tweeted the news.
“He will be awesome,” she said.

“In the House of Representatives we get to choose between US lackey
party number one and US lackey party number two – between the major
parties.

“So it will be great to `Assange’ the Senate for some Aussie oversight.”

Queensland-born Assange, who founded the secret-leaking website
WikiLeaks, announced his Senate ambition last December from Ecuador’s
London embassy.

He sought refuge there last June in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden.

Mr Assange fears if he goes to Sweden to be questioned over rape
allegations, authorities will allow him to be extradited to the US to
be questioned over WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of US diplomatic
cables.

He said last year he would run as a Senate candidate under a
yet-to-be-formed WikiLeaks party banner and was recruiting others to
stand with him.

The election will be held on September 14.

February 1, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics