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Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate

Posted by Soulskill on from the say-what-now dept.

New submitter bozman8 writes "Announced recently on social networking platform Twitter, Julian Assange has found a way to run for the Upper House of the Australian Senate, despite being detained under house arrest in Britain. Along with Julian's candidacy, WikiLeaks has announced that they are going to run a nominee against current Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her local electorate."

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  1. Go Assange! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go Assange! I wonder if they would trust him with secret documents!

    1. Re:Go Assange! by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

      He already has them.

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      http://michaelsmith.id.au
  2. Despite being under house arrest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being a British criminal has never kept anyone out of Australia, quite the contrary. ;)

    And what better place than with all the other criminals that run the country?

  3. Re:Good luck with that. by GloomE · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could just about use the senate ballot paper as a tablecloth.

    I somehow miss-read tablecloth as toilet paper.
    We have to vote on this coming Saturday, I hope it's both soft and strong.