Paul Canning: Assange Getting Kicked in the Nuts in Australia’s Election
Since it does not involve crocodiles or stranded backpackers, the news that Julian Assange is set for humiliation in Australia’s election is unlikely to get much traction, but it should.
There was never more than a faint chance that he would be elected to Australia’s Senate from the state of Victoria in the first place, according to Australia’s version of Nate Silver, Anthony Green. It was always smelling of stunt politics because Australia has rules which near certainly bar Senators who cannot actually sit in the Senate, who attempt to do their job from foreign embassies in foreign cities.
But the past few days there’s been a trio of hits showing the party for what it always was: an extension of Julian’s massive ego.
I can picture the scene in a cupboard in the Ecuadorian embassy, Assange ranting and raving as he contemplates the utter humiliation due to him in a fortnight’s time.
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