{"id":34582,"date":"2013-08-21T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=34582"},"modified":"2013-09-16T01:44:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T15:44:32","slug":"wikileaks-party-how-not-to-campaign-for-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=34582","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Party : How Not to Campaign for Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong> : Statement of Resignation from Wikileaks Party National Council<\/a> by Daniel Mathews. Leslie Cannold has been interviewed about her resignation on JJJ’s Hack<\/em> here<\/a>; a statement from others to resign from the Party — including Council members Sam Castro, Kaz Cochrane and Luke Pearson — is available here<\/a>. Their resignations leave Julian Assange, Cassie Findlay, Niraj Lal, Gail Malone, John Shipton, Kellie Tranter and Omar Todd on board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So… The WikiLeaks Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

D’oh!<\/p>\n

A few days ago it was revealed that the Party of Transparency, Accountability & Justice had unaccountably placed the neo-fascist Australia First Party ahead of The Greens on its Senate ticket for NSW and in WA placed The Nationals candidate ahead of Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, probably the one Australian Federal MP who has done more to champion WikiLeaks than any other. In the first instance, the Party responded by claiming that an “administrative error”<\/a> had been made, later posting an extract from an email<\/a>: “NSW \u2013 Greens preference WLP at 3, with Pirates at 2, and WLP puts Greens above FF, Shooters and Christian Right” intended to bolster its case.<\/p>\n

FTR, here’s how the Party ordered its preferences in NSW:<\/p>\n

1 The Wikileaks Party<\/strong>
\n2 Future Party
\n3 Pirate Party<\/strong>
\n4 Sex Party
\n5 Stop CSG
\n6 Australian Democrats
\n7 Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party
\n8 Liberal Democrats
\n9 Animal Justice Party
\n10 Uniting Australia Party
\n11 Voluntary Euthanasia Party
\n12 Drug Law Reform
\n13 Australian Independents
\n14 Bullet Train For Australia
\n15 Australian Voice
\n16 Building Australia Party
\n17 [WANG, Tom & O’TOOLE, Daniel]
\n18 Australia First Party<\/strong>
\n19 Socialist Equality Party
\n20 [WHALAN, Andrew & COOPER, Peter Grant]
\n21 The Australian Republicans
\n22 Senator Online (Internet Voting Bills\/Issues)
\n23 Carers Alliance
\n24 Shooters and Fishers<\/strong>
\n25 Australian Fishing and Lifestyle Party
\n26 Non-Custodial Parents Party (Equal Parenting)
\n27 Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party
\n28 The Greens<\/strong>
\n29 Labor
\n30 Family First Party<\/strong>*
\n31 Democratic Labour Party<\/strong> (DLP)*
\n32 Liberal\/The Nationals
\n33 Australian Protectionist Party
\n34 Socialist Alliance
\n35 Palmer United Party
\n36 Stop The Greens
\n37 Smokers Rights
\n38 Stable Population Party
\n39 Secular Party of Australia
\n40 Katter’s Australian Party
\n41 No Carbon Tax Climate Sceptics
\n42 Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group)<\/strong>*
\n43 Rise Up Australia Party<\/strong>*
\n44 [POULSEN, Ron]
\n45 [ASH, David & NATHAN, Sam & La MELA, John]
\n46 One Nation<\/p>\n

A few points.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Future Party<\/a> WTF?
\n\u2022 The ticket does allocate a higher position to the Shooters & Fishers than the Greens but places the ‘Christian Right’ (Family First Party, Democratic Labour Party, Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group), Rise Up Australia Party) below them.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The decision to preference The Nationals ahead of The Greens in WA is, on the face of it, simply inexplicable. In order, the Party preferenced the Australian Sports Party[?!?], Animal Justice Party, Australian Democrats, The Nationals and then<\/em> The Greens. On Twitter, lead WLP candidate Gerry Georgatos has claimed that the Party has ‘effectively’<\/a> preferenced The Greens — a very odd argument, for obvious reasons.
\n\u2022 Announced today, Leslie Cannold’s resignation<\/a> [PDF<\/a>] as second candidate in Victoria — one which apparently follows that of a significant number of volunteers — not only suggests a degree of organisational incompetence on the part of the Party, but will also presumably significantly weaken the Party’s already shaky appeal.
\n\u2022 The Party’s campaign director, former Tory and law-talking guy Greg Barns, has some explaining to do.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : The Wikileaks Party Lurches To The Right: Preferences Fascists, Mens-righters and Gun-lovers above the Greens<\/a>, David Jackmanson, AusVotes 2013, August 18, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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