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Wikileaks candidate out of WA Senate poll
Wikileaks candidate out of WA Senate poll
The Wikileaks Party candidate endorsed for WA's re-run Senate election has pulled out of the race, citing "unforeseen personal reasons".
Gerry Georgatos, who ran in the September poll, was announced as the lead candidate in the April 5 poll after party leader Julian Assange was not allowed to run because he had not spent enough time in WA in the past six years.
But one hour before the close of nominations on Thursday, Mr Georgatos withdrew from the race.
"There arrive events in people's lives that require their commitment, and it is my duty to honour such a commitment," he said.
"However, I will remain with the WikiLeaks Party, and I will campaign for them, for their imperatives, and I support these imperatives through the presence of the WA senate candidates."
The new lead candidate is now Tibor Meszaros, the general manager and producer of community television station West TV.
Journalist Lucy Nicol is running in second place.
Mr Georgatos, a social justice campaigner, caused controversy during the last poll when he directed preferences to The Nationals rather than the Greens, despite Senator Scott Ludlam's support for Wikileaks and Julian Assange.
Mr Georgatos said Wikileaks came close to being elected in the last poll.
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Wikileaks candidate out of WA Senate poll
WA Wikileaks candidate pulls out of Senate race
ABC Gerry Georgatos has withdrawn from the Senate election days after replacing Julian Assange.
There has been another change to the Wikileaks Party team for the WA Senate election after Julian Assange was ruled out and the endorsed candidate pulled out.
This week, Gerry Georgatos was announced as the lead candidate after Mr Assange was not allowed to run.
But following a media story which detailed Mr Georgatos' belief convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby was innocent of trying to take cannabis into Bali in 2004, he withdrew from the race.
He says he decided to pull out for "personal reasons" and denies it has anything to do with the fact he believes Corby is innocent.
Mr Georgatos also says the party has backed his stance.
Everyone on the Wikileaks national council has been supportive of me on that [support of Schapelle Corby's innocence], Mr Georgatos said.
He said he would have preferred that Julian Assange, the original choice, be the lead candidate but the party was recently told by the AEC that he was ineligible to run.
Mr Georgatos, a long time social justice campaigner, courted controversy when he ran for the Senate last year and decided the WA Wikileaks branch would go it alone on preferences.
He directed preferences to the Nationals rather than the Greens despite Senator Scott Ludlams strong support for Wikileaks and Julian Assange.
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WA Wikileaks candidate pulls out of Senate race
Schapelle Corby conspiracy theorist withdraws as WikiLeaks candidate in WA Senate election
Gerry Georgatos has withdrawn as the WikiLeaks candidate for the WA Senate.
A Schapelle Corby conspiracy theorist has withdrawn his candidacy for the WikiLeaks Party at the West Australian Senate election.
In a statement released on Monday morning, Gerry Georgatos said he had contacted the Australian Electoral Commission to remove himself from the nominations, citing ''unforseen personal reasons''.
He said he would remain with the WikiLeaks Party and campaign in the lead-up to the Senate election.
Mr Georgatos was WikiLeaks' WA candidate at the botched Senate election in September drawing just less than 10,000 or 0.75 per cent of the vote but he had announced he would step aside for Mr Assange, who he said would need just 3000 more primary votes to get elected.
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Mr Georgatos was endorsed by the WikiLeaks national council on Tuesday night after the party was notified by the Australian Electoral Commission that Mr Assange was not eligible to contest in WA as he had not spent enough time in the state in past six years.
Mr Assange remains in diplomatic asylum inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Mr Georgatos, a university researcher and journalist, wrote a series of articles in January for independent news website, The Stringer, claiming Australian officials ''know without doubt'' that Schapelle Corby is innocent.
The article went on to claim that she was used as a drug mule by corrupt officials and the Australian government considered brokering a ''tit-for-tat'' deal in which Indonesian children in Australian prisons would be ''swapped'' for Ms Corby.
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Schapelle Corby conspiracy theorist withdraws as WikiLeaks candidate in WA Senate election
Schapelle Corby conspiracy theorist to stand for WikiLeaks Party in WA Senate byelection
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is ineligible to stand in the WA Senate byelection. Photo: AFP
The WikiLeaks Party has chosen a Schapelle Corby conspiracy theorist as its candidate to replace Julian Assange at the West Australia Senate election.
Gerry Georgatos was endorsed by the WikiLeaks national council on Tuesday night after the party was notified by the Australian Electoral Commission that Mr Assange was not eligible to contest in WA as he had not spent enough time in the state in past six years.
Mr Assange remains in diplomatic asylum inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Mr Georgatos, a university researcher and journalist, wrote a series of articles in January for independent news website, The Stringer, claiming Australian officials ''know without doubt'' that Schapelle Corby is innocent.
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The article went on to claim that she was used as a drug mule by corrupt officials and the Australian government considered brokering a ''tit-for-tat'' deal in which Indonesian children in Australian prisons would be ''swapped'' for Ms Corby.
When contacted by Fairfax Media on Wednesday, Mr Georgatos stood by his claims but conceded the story was ''too dramatic'' for the Australian public to take seriously.
Mr Georgatos said he came into contact with Department of Foreign Affairs officials in the course of campaigning for the release of Indonesian boys held in adult prisons. He said they openly claimed Ms Corbys innocence.
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Schapelle Corby conspiracy theorist to stand for WikiLeaks Party in WA Senate byelection
Conspiracy theorist to run in byelection
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is ineligible to stand in the WA Senate byelection. Photo: AFP
The WikiLeaks Party has chosen a Schapelle Corby conspiracy theorist as its candidate to replace Julian Assange at the West Australia Senate election.
Gerry Georgatos was endorsed by the WikiLeaks national council on Tuesday night after the party was notified by the Australian Electoral Commission that Mr Assange was not eligible to contest in WA as he had not spent enough time in the state in past six years.
Mr Assange remains in diplomatic asylum inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Mr Georgatos, a university researcher and journalist, wrote a series of articles in January for independent news website, The Stringer, claiming Australian officials ''know without doubt'' that Schapelle Corby is innocent.
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The article went on to claim that she was used as a drug mule by corrupt officials and the Australian government considered brokering a ''tit-for-tat'' deal in which Indonesian children in Australian prisons would be ''swapped'' for Ms Corby.
When contacted by Fairfax Media on Wednesday, Mr Georgatos stood by his claims but conceded the story was ''too dramatic'' for the Australian public to take seriously.
Mr Georgatos said he came into contact with Department of Foreign Affairs officials in the course of campaigning for the release of Indonesian boys held in adult prisons. He said they openly claimed Ms Corbys innocence.
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Conspiracy theorist to run in byelection
Nitschke to run in WA Senate election
Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke to stand at the re-run of the Senate election. Picture: Sharon Smith/ WA News
Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke will be one of the many micro-party candidates to stand at the re-run of the Senate election in Western Australia - but not Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
Dr Nitschke and his Voluntary Euthanasia Party announced they would be running on April 5 to "lead the charge in pushing politicians to take a stance on voluntary euthanasia".
"We are so excited that we'll soon have passionate VEP members and community leaders speaking with Western Australians to spread the word of why a vote for the party is so important this election," Dr Nitschke said.
Dr Nitschke, who performed the world's first legally assisted suicides in the Northern Territory in 1996, ran senate candidates in NSW, ACT and South Australia, as well as in the Northern Territory lower house seat of Solomon in last year's federal election. The party did not field a senate candidate in WA in September.
"We're looking to build on our efforts last September and bring together thousands of Australians to run a powerful campaign in our country's biggest state," Dr Nitschke said.
Meanwhile, the Wikileaks Party has confirmed Mr Assange would not run, amid reports he was not eligible to contest in WA as he had not spent enough time in the state in past six years.
The Wikileaks founder remains in diplomatic asylum inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
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Local candidate Gerry Georgatos, who ran in WA for Wikileaks in September, has been selected by the party to lead their campaign.
WikiLeaks’ Assange talks NSA, hints at more leaks (Update)
Mar 08, 2014 by Barbara Ortutay Fugitive WikLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks via Skype at the South By SouthWest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Saturday, March 8, 2014. Assange's appearance underscores the increasing attention that the technology industry is paying to issues of online privacy, security and surveillance. (AP Photo/Barbara Ortutay)
Fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking over Skype from the Ecuadorean embassy in London, said his living situation is a bit like prisonwith a more lenient visitor policy.
He also hinted that new leaks are coming from WikiLeaks, though he gave no specifics on what these might be.
Assange, who has been confined to the embassy since June 2012, discussed government surveillance, journalism and the situation in Ukraine on Saturday in a streaming-video interview beamed to an audience of 3,500 attendees of the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas.
Assange's hour-long remote appearance was spiked with technical glitches. As the audio cut out, he sometimes asked audience members to raise their hands if they could hear him. Benjamin Palmer, the co-founder of marketing firm The Barbarian Group who interviewed Assange, at one point resorted to texting his questions.
Looking well-groomed in a white shirt, scarf and a black blazer, Assange blasted President Barack Obama's administration, saying it was not taking fellow secrets leaker Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance activities seriously.
"We know what happens when the government is serious," he said. "Someone is fired, someone is forced to resign, someone is prosecuted, an investigation (is launched), a budget is cut. None of that has happened in the last eight months since the Edward Snowden revelations."
Assange's appearance at this five-day conferencewhich will host Snowden in a similar remote interview Monday from Russia which granted him temporary asylumsignal the growing concern in the tech community around issues of online privacy, surveillance and security, even as Internet giants like Google and Facebook reap billions in advertising revenue from collecting information about their users.
"Now that the Internet has merged with human society and human society has merged with the Internet, the laws of the Internet become the laws of society," Assange said, adding that the NSA's "penetration of the Internet" has led to a "military occupation" of civilian space.
Assange has taken asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault charge, which he has said would be merely a first step in efforts to move him to the U.S. to face charges over publishing hundreds of thousands of secret government documents.
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