Recent Australian Wikileaks Party News
... 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 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 ...
Schapelle Corby conspiracy theorist to stand for WikiLeaks Party in WA Senate byelection
March 12, 2014
Heath Aston
... 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 ...
WA Wikileaks candidate pulls out of Senate race
By David Weber and Rebecca Trigger
Updated March 14, 2014 13:51:47