Julian Assange's Wikileaks Party has come under fire for directing its preferences to the Shooters and Fishers Party and the white nationalist Australia First Party ahead of both major parties and the Greens in the NSW Senate race.

Australia First's policies include reducing and limiting immigration and ''abolishing multiculturalism''.

The chairman of Australia First, Jim Saleam, is a former neo-Nazi who was convicted in the late 1980s of organising a shotgun attack on the home of an Australian representative of the African National Congress. WikiLeaks candidates in NSW include human rights activist Kellie Tranter.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the WikiLeaks Party said its National Coucil decided the Shooters and Fishers and the Australia First party should have been below Greens, Labor and Liberal but administrative problems were to blame.

It is understood WikiLeaks have gone into a complex preference deal with micro parties, mainly right-wing, in a bid to get a candidate into the senate.