Spent a little time today digging around and found two prior art patents, which make things a little more fun:

Nokia "Apparatus, Methods and computer program products providing finger-based and hand-based gesture commands for portable electronic device" in 2006

and interesting Apple again in 2004 (granted 2006), " Gestures for touch sensitive input devices" but this patent is not listed as prior art to the granted Apple "pinch to zoom" patent

http://www.ambercite.com/joomla/index.php/amber

given the historically low approval ratings of the two major Australian political leaders, and the disappearance of the greens, depending on who his running mates are he could get some traction in these disenchanted times.

Yahoo7 which traditionally has a conservative leaning editorial policy and readership ran a poll today "Support a WikiLeaks party?", surprisingly 54% (3447) have said yes. I think his appeal is broader that you might think, not because people support Assange, but because they HATE the other two choices.