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Remembering those that will not be at Pride March on Sunday PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Written by Chris Johnson   
Friday, 01 February 2013 13:53

On Sunday in St Kilda the Australian Sex Party will participate in Pride March. We march with other organisations and community groups in a public display of the courage, solidarity, pride and diversity of the lesbian, gay men, bisexuals, transgender and intersex people and their supporters.

In doing so we remember those who are can't be there. Those who took their life due to homophobic bullying or discrimination.

Sadly the exposure draft of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012 from the Gillard Government seeks to entrench exemptions for religious organisations to discriminate on a person's sexuality, gender or marital status. Anything which offends their religious sensibilities. This extends to religious organisations providing government services.

It is not good enough and our LGBTI youth deserve better. From this government and from all of us.

How many more will die before Australians demand better?

Chris Johnson- ASP member

 

 
Sex Party Calls for Fixed Terms PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Written by Fiona Patten   
Thursday, 31 January 2013 13:26
The Australian Sex Party wants the Prime Minister to announce fixed parliamentary terms rather than a fixed date for an election.

Party President, Fiona Patten, said that the uncertainty caused to legislative programs by not having a deadline to work to was very damaging to the economy and resulted in ‘go slow’ attitudes in the public service.

“The Prime Minister can claim that knowing the date of the election will stop unnecessary speculation in the media but really governments need to know from the beginning of their term, when they will face the people again”, she said.

“Fixed terms allow people to plan economic and social programs without having an electoral gun held to their heads half way through”.


 
Interview with Fiona Patten on Royal Commission PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Written by Rebecca Lanning   
Tuesday, 29 January 2013 11:50

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Sex Party policy on religion and sexual abuse is starting to be recognised by the nation's media.


Party president, Fiona Patten, recently gave an interview to ABC radio on why the party was launched with a policy to call a Royal Commission into child abuse in the nation's churches. She points out that not only has the church heirachy and their lawyers been complicit in covering up the sins of the fathers but so have a number of politicians who may escape scrutiny under the terms of reference of the Royal Commission.

Listen here.http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2013/01/royal-commission.html

 

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Sex Party NSW Branch: Dissolution PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Written by ASP   
Monday, 31 December 2012 14:30
Dear NSW Members,

Notice is hereby given that as of close of business today (31st December 2012), the Sex Party NSW Branch will be dissolved in accordance with the motion put to the Australian Sex Party NSW Special General Meeting (held 05/12/2012).  This motion was voted on and passed unanimously.

Please note that while the NSW Branch has been dissolved, the Sex Party will continue to exist as a Federal Party. Your Party membership will not change. The Australian Sex Party will campaign in and contest the 2013 Federal Election and your support in NSW is as important as ever.

If you have any queries please email them to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Kind regards,
The Australian Sex Party Team
 
Murmurs in the pews: royal commission will rock churches PDF  | Print |  E-mail
Written by   The Canberra Times | Ross Fitzgerald   
Monday, 03 December 2012 08:15

hypocrites_2000The recent announcement of a royal commission on child sex abuse caught many people by surprise. Although the weight  of allegations and prosecutions, especially against Australia's clergy, had been rising alarmingly, until recently the issue of child sex abuse was still being ignored at a policy level by all of Australia's political parties, except one.

When Fiona Patten launched the Australian Sex Party in 2009, she was the only political leader calling for a royal commission into child sex abuse. In 2000 (the same year that the Irish government announced their Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse) Patten oversaw the publication of a list of all sex crimes by clergy in Australia that had come before the courts, and sent a copy to every state and federal MP and every church.

They rounded on her for her audacity to suggest that such a problem existed. She received death threats and hate mail for her courage. Her call was seen as alarmist and bizarre by many MPs some of whom wrote to her in disgust.

But the recent revelation by Nielsen pollsters of a 97per cent support rate in the community for the royal commission, shows just how deeply felt this issue has been with voters and how on the money Patten was. It also shows how out of touch with sexual issues politicians had become. If they couldn't feel this rising tide of angst and anger in the community over what was clearly approaching an ''epidemic'', how in touch are they on other sexual matters like health, censorship and sexual culturein general?

On her website Patten has posted her submission regarding the terms of reference for the royal commission. She has reminded the government that politicians and indeed the Parliament itself may bear some responsibility for the way in which this problem appears to have increased and that they should not be immune from investigation from the royal commission.

The Sex Party's high-profile NSW Senate candidate, Andrew Patterson, is a former vice-squad detective and former head of child protection in WA. He has written his own submission calling on the Attorney-General to allow various aspects of policing to be investigated by the royal commission, including the disbanding of his child protection unit by the West Australian government.

It is vital that the inquiry looks at every level of government and how they have interacted with institutions but I suspect that the Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, will see the relationship that exists between both major parties and the church hierarchy, as a form of ''confessional'' and not allow the public access to these discussions. When the issue of child sex abuse in religious institutions was first brought to the attention of federal and state MPs in 2000, why was nothing done then? Ireland had just launched its inquiry at that stage and a number of different groups had started writing to state and federal MPs about the problem in the late 1990s.

Groups such as Broken Rites and the parents of abused children picked up the publication of the child sex offender index in 1999 but in the main they were dismissed as the ramblings of unstable people pitching against the established moral authority of the church. If a day is a long time in Parliament, a decade is an eternity for the families of abused children to wait for an inquiry. If the results of the Irish commission are anything to go by, religion in Australia is about to endure its darkest hour. That inquiry handed down its findings in 2009. This was about halfway through the polling process for the Global Index of Religion and Atheism conducted by the Gallup International Association, which reported earlier this year. Globally, they found that those claiming to be religious dropped by 9per cent. In Ireland that figure was a massive 22per cent decline and for the first time, pushed Ireland into the top 10 atheist nations alongside China, France and Japan. Australia also made it into the top 10 atheist countries coming in at number nine with only 37per cent of our population saying they were religious. If our royal commission has a similar effect on faith, we could see levels of religiosity plummet to about 15per cent, which could see us sharing top spot with China (14per cent) as the world's most atheist country.

The effects of the royal commission could have widespread and unforeseen outcomes - such has been the force of religion in Australia up to now.

Could small anti-religious political parties like the Secular Party, the Sex Party and the Liberal Democratic Party expect a boost in votes at the next Senate election? Could it cause the major parties to start preferencing away from church-based political parties like the DLP and Family First for fear of association?

Could the reporting of the nature of the sex crimes committed by clergy (many will be truly appalling) cause problems for Australia's five church-based parties in attracting candidates?

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