I 'did' Vote Compass yesterday and had some problems with it. I wondered about the absence of Wikileaks, and was annoyed by the question about my sources of news/political information, which listed many newspapers, radio and tv channels as well as online sources, but only allowed one to be selected. Who on earth gets their information from only one source these days?

The absence of the Wikileaks party from the compass doesn't seem terribly significant to me. The main purpose of the compass is not an opinion poll on voting intentions, but an attempt to evaluate a person's opinions on a range of policy issues against the platforms of the major parties. It follows a model well established elsewhere.

The Wikileaks party doesn’t appear to have a policy on most of the issues canvassed, and its “platform” on the few it does - like climate change and asylum seeks - seems to me too high-level and imprecise to compare meaningfully with voters’ intentions or other parties’ policies. I believe that the voting intentions data is mainly collected to do demographic analysis of voters’ responses, not to position them on the compass itself.

A vote for wiki-leaks is a vote for complete loss of privacy and or, the right to own/keep private property.
After all, self admitted Former criminal Hackers like the wiki-leaks founder, don't seem to accept anyone else has a right to either! Or personal diary/private mail/irrefutable sexual rights?
That said, all that one can see happening there, is a virtual split of the green vote, or slightly less informal voting.
As an also interesting aside, a vote for Kevin Rudd is also a vote for Malcolm (return bill) Turnbull?
Rhrosty.

I find it really amazing that there are people prepared to vote for this disgusting bit of self obsessed garbage, & his party!

I am disgusted that an Australian political party like Wikileaks is allowed to be registered when it has a leader who has yet to be tried for an alleged sexual assault charge in Sweden.

I also can't believe anyone would 'follow' such a bloke that hides out at a foreign embassy rather than face his legal problems in both the US and Sweden.
He seems like a coward to me.

I completed the 'ABC vote compass' survey this evening and found it quite interesting.
It did come up with the party I had intended to vote for.
I was pleased it never mentioned such an insane party as Wikileaks, although I think it should have given the equally silly named party 'The Shooters and fishers Party' a miss as well!

Apparently WikiLeaks has now been added to VoteCompass.