Julian Assange is a darling of the corporate media. His creation was all about leading dis-affected people no where.He has achieved his goal.

In the military they have false flag attacks. Julian Assange is a false flag freedom fighter.

Yes, pelican it's "a one-issue party based around transparency".

And how is that "left wing" exactly?

Why the presumption that such a party *must* be leftist/progressive?
What does transparency have to do with the environment (and why is *that* a "leftist" issue anyway?), or cultural diversity or gay marriage or legal abortion or any other progressive issue-of-the-week?

You might be shocked, but many on the "far" right are strongly opposed to government surveillance.

Any smart alternative party knows that *any* minor party winning a seat disrupts the two-party system.
Surely subversive hacker-types would want to encourage such disruption?
Why the feigned outrage?

Shockadelic
Crikey! I just re-read my post and cannot see how you gained the impression of outrage - faux or otherwise. Especially such criticism coming from someone with the handle 'Shockadelic'. I think it more that you took personal offence at your interpretation of my words which were knee-jerk to say the least.

Let me try again. I specifically said that transparency was not a Left/Right issue and I have had enough experience in government to know that dodgy behaviour is not restricted to one party when it comes to transparency.

The reason why many people were surprised at the way preferences fell to far right parties was they have thus far exhibited little priority to the area of transparency. While the Greens (no matter what you think of them) have been the most vocal in this parliament over issues like transparency, data retention and the like. In particular Senator Ludlum in WA has often defended Wikileaks and Julian Asange and spoken in Estimates and Inquiries on these issues. Hence my reference to the odd choice to preference the far Right who have not been open about transparency (pardon the pun).

Regardless of any Left/Right bias one would assume preferences would be based on shared principles of transparency and desire for more honest government and public service.

Far right parties are not traditionally for Open Goverment nor are the far Left as commonly exhibitied in Communist nations. It's that simple.