Assange would use Senate for free speech push

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is planning to run for election to the Australian Senate. Picture: AFP Source: AFP

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange says he would use a Senate seat to push free speech by using parliamentary privilege to break suppression orders and other "restraints on access to information by the public.

Mr Assange was speaking about an earlier announcement that Wikileaks had discovered he could run for the Australian Senate while under house arrest in Britain and that he planned to do so.

He told the Sydney Morning Herald he would protect "the right of citizens to live lives free from state interference''

According to Assange the Australian political system was dominated by insiders and cronyism and very few were actually working for the interest of the Australian public.

He pledged to promote more openness and which called the "the politics of understanding before acting".

Read more about Mr Assange's comments at the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Assange would use Senate for free speech push