WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's world is looking increasingly small. It's been six months since he decided to hole up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London and seek asylum in that country.

While Assange's world has become circumscribed, he's still dreaming big. Assange told Australian newspaper The Age he's going to run as an Australian Senate candidate next year. He also disclosed plans to create a WikiLeaks political party, saying that "a number of very worthy people admired by the Australian public" would be interested in running on a WikiLeaks ticket.

He still hasn't decided which state to run for office in, but he said he can meet the requirements to run from overseas in either New South Wales or Victoria. Each Australian state gets 12 seats in the nation's 76-seat senate; New South Wales and Victoria will each have six seats up for election in 2013.

The goals of a WikiLeaks party would include pursuing more "openness in government and politics," and fighting for privacy rights, Assange told The Age. He hopes to build enough support to register his party by tapping into supporters on Facebook and Twitter, where the WikiLeaks account has 1.7 million followers.

Assange was born in the Australian state of Queensland. He's currently seeking refuge from accusations of sexual abuse in Sweden because, in June, UK courts ruled that he could be extradited to that country.