Senator Assange?

[Aractus]

Regardless of the reasons why Julian Assange wants to get elected to the Senate, if he decides to run for a Senate seat (most likely in Victoria). I predict an Assange ticket would get enough of the vote to win a Senate seat (at the likely expense of the Greens). It could be likely in that scenario that a Coalition government lacking a senate majority, would face a Senate whose balance of power is comprised of Nick Xenophon of South Australia, The Democratic Labor Party senator from Victoria, Julian Assange and possibly a Katter's Australia Party Senator from Queensland.

Many Australians regard Julian Assange as a hero and an Assange ticket would attract support from people who normally vote Labor and even the Liberals, along with those who support the Greens.

Hahahaha, you "predict" that an Assange ticket will get elected? That's just crazy. Most Australians vote for the major parties - ALP and Libs/Nats. The Greens are a minor party who's popularity has peaked as they becoming increasingly less popular among first-time-voters, environmentalists, and even left-wing voters. All the candidates you mentioned have the potential to get elected, but in all likely hood there will not be any more independents or minor-party Senators than there are at present.

Assange isn't going to get elected because people like him. And there are a shitload of Australians who don't like him too, so there's no way that his popularity vote will win him a Senate seat. He will have to campaign effectively on key issues facing Australia for the next three years. People want to know that a Senator is willing to be their voice, so he will have to campaign on how he will be the community's voice, what community values facing Victoria that he will fight for, etc.

You are correct though that he will potentially dislodge the Green's seat and take it, which in all honesty should be his ambition. The last thing he would want to do is to try and align himself with the Greens, that would be a disaster for him. The Greens want to stop mining, logging, all kinds of crazy shit (of course point out to them that we import timber cut down from Indonesian rainforests and they'll still say they want to end logging in Australia). Assange is politically left-wing, and most of the Australian people are centre-right. Thus he'll need to explain his policies in such a way that gets through to people that are in all likely hood not politically aligned with him. So I don't think it's as likely as you think, except for the fact that we already know that there's a Green's senate seat which he could potentially dislodge with a well enough run campaign.