Address to the UNSW Politics Society (NSW Senate Candidates Forum) by Kellie Tranter, lead WikiLeaks Party NSW Senate candidate

Thank you for the invitation to participate in this forum tonight.

I’m sure I can speak for most people in the room when I say that there are moments in your life that come along when you are reminded of causes and principles which stretch far beyond your own self-interest.

It was a moment just like that that prompted me to join the WikiLeaks Party.

The energy and passion that you draw from like minded people working together to make a difference is an adventure well worth taking.

By Dr Binoy Kampmark, WikiLeaks Party Senate candidate for Victoria

It is happening, again. The grotesque similarities are haunting. Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States, along with its faithful, evangelically led air craft carrier in the form of Britain, decided to treat the United Nations as a body of opinion rather than worth. Efforts made to bring to light Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (more totem than taboo), had not been successful. The reserved and ever cautious Hans Blix of the UN Weapons Inspectors team urged restraint in the name of empirical certainty. There was, as it were, no smoking gun. There were, instead, hallucinations and mirages.

Now, the imposition of inevitability in the Syrian conflict is gathering force. The illusion is going to be made a reality. Strike Syria, suggest the war loving cliques, because giving war a chance is worth doing. The UN General Secretary, the ever invisible Ban Ki-moon, prefers to see peace given a chance, but he is part of a rapidly shrinking number of policy makers to think so.

By Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Party lead Victorian Senate candidate

It is rife in mainstream Australian politics, especially in the ALP, for senior figures to be compromised by US connections, writes Julian Assange. Continue Reading…

Address to The WikiLeaks Party fundraising Fiesta, Sydney, August 17, by NSW Senate Candidate Kellie Tranter

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are meeting. I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present, and the Elders from other communities who may be here today.

I’m very pleased to be here tonight with my running mate Dr Alison Brionowski and I sincerely thank the organisers of this event.

May I personally thank the Ecuadorian people for their courage, compassion and for keeping an Australian citizen safe from harm when he was abandoned by our Government. You hold a special place in our hearts.

It’s hard to believe that there was a time when the media actually described Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as net crusaders. Of course that only lasted until they spoke truth to power.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Binoy Kampmark, a noted scholar and expert on Australia’s international relations, will now be Julian Assange’s primary running mate in the Federal Senate election for Victoria.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark replaces Leslie Cannold. Continue Reading…

– issued on behalf of WLP National Council and all WLP Federal Election Candidates

The WikiLeaks Party is today releasing, because of its commitment to transparency, the emailed instructions sent last Friday evening to Party members involved in organising the lodgement of Group Voting Tickets (‘GVTs’) for each of the states in which the Party is running candidates – New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. The Party is also announcing it will hold an independent review into the preference communication and GVT compilation processes. If necessary, the Party will also issue instructions to its members and supporters in the states concerned, on how to vote below the line. Continue Reading…

It is a pity that an Attorney General with the surname of Dreyfus has decided that history, notably one of injustice, is something for other people. The Dreyfus Affair, France’s divisive scandal involving Captain Alfred Dreyfus’ alleged communication of French military secrets to the German embassy in Paris, plagued France from 1894 to 1906.

The point of it was that Dreyfus was framed and made an example of, banished to Devil’s Island. He was convicted – twice. He was exonerated only in 1906. The military establishment, with its baubles and pleasantries, had been keen to keep evidence coming to light that a certain French Army major by the name of Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was responsible.