By Kellie Tranter, WikiLeaks Party National Council member

Kevin Rudd says he wants to re-engage Australia’s youth in the political process. Improving their job and career prospects would be a good place to start, argues Kellie Tranter.

Kevin Rudd’s victory speech last night highlighted the importance of re-engaging young people in the political process. He referred to the energy and ideas they can contribute.

But with official unemployment figures for young Australians exceeding 15 per cent – not including the under-employed and those who have stopped looking for work – our nation’s youth could be forgiven for feeling sceptical of the invitation.

By WikiLeaks National Council member Cassie Findlay

While the world’s attention is focused on the situation of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently being assisted by WikiLeaks to find safe haven, the WikiLeaks Party is examining what the Prism revelations tell us about the monitoring of Australians – and what our politicians are saying.

When challenged by the media and in Parliament on the question of whether Australian intelligence agencies were receiving information from the PRISM program, through which the US is reportedly using “back doors” to access data from big technology firms such as Google, Facebook and Apple, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has consistently refused to say.

Welcome to WikiLeaks Party News. As we move closer to September 14 we’ll be communicating with you more regularly. Look out for candidate and policy announcements coming soon!

WikiLeaks steps in to protect whistleblower Edward Snowden; WikiLeaks Party calls for greater protections for whistleblowers and judicial oversight for security and intelligence agencies’ spying requests

By WikiLeaks Party National Council member Kellie Tranter

A recent article published in the Sydney Morning Herald suggests that Australians are talking about whether Australia will succumb to the financial crisis. Could it be that Australian voters are more in tune with Australia’s economic realities than the country’s pundits, and sense what lurks beneath Australia’s AAA economy?

We hear a lot about government gross debt being in the order of $255.7 billion, but commentators seldom discuss another important figure, namely our gross foreign liabilities.

It has now been a year since I entered this embassy and sought refuge from persecution.

As a result of that decision, I have been able to work in relative safety from a US espionage investigation.

But today, Edward Snowden’s ordeal is just beginning.

Two dangerous runaway processes have taken root in the last decade, with fatal consequences for democracy.

Government secrecy has been expanding on a terrific scale.

WikiLeaks and Monitoring the Monitored

by Binoy Kampmark

Ideas are fashioned weapons. When applied to the right spot, their result can be immediate, overwhelming, collapsing. The pressing need for populations across countries to revolt against the revolting, to assert sovereignty over themselves, their information, their very sense of being human, is now greater than ever.

The metadata authoritarians, the wet dreamers of information, habituated paranoids, must be challenged. Their activities must themselves be subject to surveillance. Franz Kafka’s nightmarish world, with its sinister bureaucratic pitfalls, potholes of arbitrary acts by state, must be inverted, its legacy reversed. Their actions must themselves be countenanced by judicial scrutiny. The law, in short, must be given its sight again.

The sinister nature of the modern information regime lies in its seemingly benign quality. Big Brother is a celebrity show, not a vicious, maniacal controller of human behaviour, a murderous pestilence against people’s dignity. The dystopia we are readying ourselves for will be all the more hideous because it demands complicity, that need to be protected against ourselves by those who claim they know best.