{"id":85429,"date":"2013-08-28T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=85429"},"modified":"2013-08-28T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T08:03:49","slug":"wikileaks-party-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/85429-wikileaks-party-mess.html","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Party mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a title=\"WikiLeaks Party\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/555737-WikiLeaks-Party\">WikiLeaks Party<\/a> candidate <a title=\"Leslie Cannold\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/555739-Leslie-Cannold\">Leslie Cannold<\/a> said Wednesday she would sit as an independent if she were elected to Australia&#8217;s parliament in the September 7 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Cannold was second on the ticket for the upper house after WikiLeaks founder <a title=\"Julian Assange\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333540-Julian-Assange\">Julian Assange<\/a> until she broke with the party last week over alleged corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would be completely independent,&#8221; the Melbourne academic said. &#8220;I would have nothing more to do with that party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Australian-born Assange is holed up in Ecuador&#8217;s Embassy in London to thwart attempts to extradite him to Sweden for questioning over sexual assault allegations.<\/p>\n<p>If Assange won a seat in the senate, under proportional-representation rules Cannold would be his automatic replacement. It is too late for her to withdraw her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks&#8217; already slim chances of victory at the ballot box were delivered a blow by the exit last week of Cannold and six other senior party members over secret preference deals with other parties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about the most profound kind of internal corruption in a party that puts itself out as a standard bearer for transparency, democracy, accountability, truth-telling and justice,&#8221; Cannold said.<\/p>\n<p>Assange released a promotional video showing him wearing a wig and miming to an Australian rock classic by singer John Farnham in which he appeals to &#8220;all the Sheilas and blokes back home in Oz&#8221; to vote for his party.<\/p>\n<p>The video was criticized for its crude representations of other candidates in an election that pits Prime Minister Kevin Rudd&#8217;s Labor Party against Tony Abbott&#8217;s conservative coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks spokesperson Cassie Findlay was unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Wikileaks articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/84433-wikileaks-manning-apologises-for-hurting-the-us.html&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=PuIUUoOvMYv14QTXqYHADg&amp;ved=0CAoQFjAB&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;usg=AFQjCNE838pyH0-ai_tOsdfJBiDq8GlMIg\" target=\"_blank\" data-ctorig=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/84433-wikileaks-manning-apologises-for-hurting-the-us.html\" data-cturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/84433-wikileaks-manning-apologises-for-hurting-the-us.html&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=PuIUUoOvMYv14QTXqYHADg&amp;ved=0CAoQFjAB&amp;client=internal-uds-cse&amp;usg=AFQjCNE838pyH0-ai_tOsdfJBiDq8GlMIg\">WikiLeaks\u2019 Manning apologises for \u201churting the US\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/84169-mannings-mental-health-questioned-at-sentencing.html\">Manning\u2019s mental health questioned at sentencing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/83437-snowden-leaves-moscow-airport-for-safe-harbour.html\">Snowden leaves Moscow airport for safe harbour<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former WikiLeaks Party candidate Leslie Cannold said Wednesday she would sit as an independent if she were elected to Australia&#8217;s parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":79343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7979,613,21137],"class_list":["post-85429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-quicknews","tag-wikileaks","tag-wikileaks-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85469,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85429\/revisions\/85469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}