The Australian Sex
Party
The Australian Sex Party is a political party in Australia
formed in 2008. Fiona Patten, a former
prostitute, is the leader of the party and will stand for
the Senate at the next federal election. The party was
officially launched on the 20th November 2008 at Melbourne
Sexpo and achieved registration as a political party from the
Australian Electoral Commission in August 2009. The party has
nearly 2,000 members.
The party has substantial links with the
Eros Association - Australia's national adult
retail and entertainment association. Fiona Patten is the CEO
of the Eros Association and the party's Registered Officer is
Robert Swan, who is also the Media Director of
the Eros Association.
The party contested elections for the first time at the Higgins
and Bradfield by-elections in November 2009, gaining over three
percent of the primary vote in both seats, coming fourth of ten
and third of twenty-two candidates respectively.
Policies
Censorship
• Bring about the establishment of a truly national
classification scheme which includes a uniform non-violent
erotica rating for explicit adult material for all
jurisdictions and through all media including the Internet and
computer games.
• Introduce an R and X rating for computer games.
• To overturn mandatory ISP filtering of the Internet (see
Internet censorship in Australia) and return Internet
censorship to parents and individuals.
Education
• To bring about the development of a national sex education
curriculum as a first step in preventing the sexualisation of
children.
• Development of a national internet education scheme for
parents.
Equality
• To enact national
anti-discrimination laws which make it illegal to unfairly
discriminate against people or companies on the basis of job,
occupation, profession or calling.
• To hold a referendum to create mandatory equal numbers of men
and women in the Senate and State Upper Houses.
• To create total equal rights in all areas of the law for
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
• Overturn racist laws that ban Aboriginal people from
possessing erotic and sexual media in the Northern
Territory.
• Ensure the sexual rights and freedoms of the disabled and
elderly.
Health
• To enact national pregnancy
termination laws along the same lines as divorce law — which
allow for legal, no-fault and guilt-free processes for women
seeking termination.
• The listing of Viagra, Cialis and other drugs used to treat
sexual dysfunction, on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
• Overturn restrictions on aid to overseas family planning
organisations that reference abortion.
Protection of children
• Convene a Royal
Commission into child sex abuse in the nation’s religious
institutions.
• Develop global approaches to tackling child pornography which
focus on detection and apprehension of the producers of the
material.
Workplace relations
• Ensure that the
introduction of paid maternity leave is fair and equitable for
small businesses.
• Abolish sex slavery and sexual servitude by introducing non
morality-based immigration policies that allow bona-fide sex
workers to work legally in Australia.
Other
• Ending the tax exempt status for religions.
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Sex_Party
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