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Anti-wowser Sex Party to flirt with voters |
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Written by Canberra Times | DAVID CURRY
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 16:51 |
 SEX AND politics usually make uncomfortable bedfellows, but a new political party plans a joyful union of both at the next federal election.
The Australian Sex Party, or Sex Party for short, is in the final stage of obtaining approval from the Australian Electoral Commission for election funding and for registration as a non-parliamentary party.
The party's convener, and likely future candidate, Fiona Patten, said the party decided to get serious about politics when the Rudd Government decided to try to introduce a mandatory internet filter.
''That was the final straw. But when we started thinking about what a political party would be, we realised our agendas were around gender, sexuality and of course, censorship,'' she said.
Ms Patten is chief executive of the EROS Association, the national adult retail and entertainment association.
She said having lobbied federal and state governments on censorship for 20 years, it was time to try to achieve change ''from the inside''. In recent months the party had attracted the support of many people concerned about censorship, particularly in the under-35 age group.
Source http://www.canberratimes.com.au
Photo left: Robbie Swan - Sex Party's Public Officer.
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Sex Party on it's way to the next federal election |
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Written by XBIZ | Tod Hunter
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 15:41 |
 DEAKIN WEST, Australia — The Australian Sex Party, a political party supported by the Australian adult industry trade group Eros Association, has filed papers for registration with the Australian Electoral Commission.
The Electoral Commission maintains the official register of political parties that can be acknowledged on ballots.
"We picked up another few hundred members in Western Australia [during Sexpo] and we are now in the fundraising period," Sex Party organizer Fiona Patten told XBIZ in an email. "The adult industry and its supporters will now have a party to vote for that genuinely reflects their philosophies on sex, love and gender. We are getting micro donations from members of the public, which is great, and a number of adult businesses have pledged support."
Photo: Sex Party Convener Fiona Patten is confident the Party's registration will be successful.
The next step in the process is for the Electoral Commission to publish informational advertisements in major newspapers asking for public comment, which happened on June 17. The public comment period is four weeks.
"We already think that we have had some impact on government policy," Patten said. "The government has changed their policy on aid for overseas health organizations that provide advice for or abortion services and are now weakening on their mandatory Internet filter policy."
Patten said that the party is starting to send out campaign material through adult stores throughout Australia and some online businesses. "We believe that we can access nearly 25 percent of the adult population through these avenues."
Current party membership is "nearly 2,000" according to Patten, who projects a membership of 10,000 by the end of 2009. The population of Australia was estimated at 21 million as of July 2008 and there are currently 26 political parties registered with the Australian Electoral Commission.
Source: http://www.xbiz.com/
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Sexing up politics |
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Written by The Age
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 13:28 |
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THE uniquely named Australian Sex Party has applied to the Australian Electoral Commission to be registered as a party and receive a chunk of election funding, generously supplied by the taxpayer, the occasion providing an irresistible opportunity for wordsmiths.
It could be the first time that "election" and that other word with an "r" go hand-in-hand, so to speak. The party, convened by eroto-political campaigner Fiona Patten, notes on its website: "Our members' needs always come first." Boom-boom. The party's "secret political and spiritual adviser" is a Dick Tracy lookalike called Curly Merkin and for those unfamiliar with the surname, consult a dictionary.
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Sex Party Calls on PM to Visit a Brothel |
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Written by ASP | Fiona Patten
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Monday, 22 June 2009 12:02 |
Australian Sex Party leader, Fiona Patten, has called on the Prime Minister to visit an Asian brothel in Australia so he can see first hand the negative effects of his government’s appalling changes to visas for sex workers.
Immigration Minister Chris Evans’ plans to give trafficked sex workers a new 45 day access visa without altering the government’s prohibition on working visas for bona fide sex workers. This would result in even more misery and sex slavery in Australia, according to Ms Patten.
“Solving the problem of illegal sex workers in this country is a no-brainer”, she said. “It simply requires the PM to acknowledge that prostitution is a legitimate profession or calling, for many women”.
Ms Patten, who worked as a sex worker advocate in the 1990s, said the federal government’s ban on working visas for sex workers was the major reason that allowed sex trafficking to flourish in Australia. “If bona fide sex workers were able to apply for a working visa to work in a legal brothel in Australia for six or 12 months at a time, the low-life pimps and operators who traffic women into this country would have the ground cut out from under them and they would have nothing to offer these women”, she said. “The problem is Kevin Rudd’s morality will not allow him to acknowledge sex work as a formal and legitimate job even though it is legal in most states. Meanwhile his moral ‘dilemma’ is ruining many women’s lives.”
The Australian Sex Party would lobby strongly for a change to visa and discrimination policies to overcome this problem, if elected to the Senate at the next federal election. Legitimate sex workers who applied for a working visa would have to demonstrate a good working knowledge of sex work practises and safe sex techniques. They would have to pay tax, superannuation, supply a nominated residential address and have a guarantee of returning to the country of origin, when they first entered Australia.
Fiona Patten
PO Box 181 Deakin West Canberra ACT 2600
Telephone 02 6285 2477
www.sexparty.org.au
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Perth Sexpo went off!!! |
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Written by Australian Sex Party
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 10:52 |
We have finally shaken off the last of the post Sexpo hangover and the memories are returning - we had such a fantastic time over in Perth!
We held our very first public Sex Party party at the Metro bar, which was lots of fun. We also had a very successful stand at Sexpo and signed up a bunch of new members to the Party.
I would like to give a huge thanks to all our wonderful volunteers who helped us out on the stand xox. In fact it was one of our volunteers who won the amateur strip on Friday night, woohoo!! Thanks also to our stand manager, Claire, who was amazingly adept at putting temporary tattoos on boobs and penises alike.
I hope everyone who came along to Sexpo had as much fun as we did!
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