Uhura's Mazda
Banned
In 2013, Julian Assange, then (as now) in house arrest in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, founded the Wikileaks Party and stood for the Australian Senate in the state of Victoria. Naturally, he didn't win.
But let's handwave a series of events which gets him elected - maybe the Greens decide to endorse his candidacy or the Minor Parties Alliance control preference flows towards him or something. What happens next? Is he allowed to travel to Australia? Is he able to make the Australian Government any more transparent? Do Wikileaks continue under Parliamentary Privilege? And what happens when he inevitably loses his seat in 2016 (or earlier, if he's so irritating that the double dissolution is called earlier)?
But let's handwave a series of events which gets him elected - maybe the Greens decide to endorse his candidacy or the Minor Parties Alliance control preference flows towards him or something. What happens next? Is he allowed to travel to Australia? Is he able to make the Australian Government any more transparent? Do Wikileaks continue under Parliamentary Privilege? And what happens when he inevitably loses his seat in 2016 (or earlier, if he's so irritating that the double dissolution is called earlier)?