All-rounder ... activist and performer Zahra Stardust expands her political ambitions with a tilt at City of Sydney. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Zahra Stardust is a human rights lawyer, Miss Nude Australia Pole Dance Champion 2012 and a porn actress, but come Saturday she hopes to also be lord mayor of the City of Sydney.
A so-called sex-positive feminist, Ms Stardust is using her experience in the adult entertainment industry to further her passions in politics - as you do.
"At a local government level, I'm particularly passionate about anti-discrimination against the sex business," Ms Stardust told The Diary's I've-seen-it-all-now correspondent, Dominic Bossi.
"Our policies translate to things like the extension of legal injecting rooms beyond Kings Cross, [abolishing] sniffer dogs on public streets.''
Ms Stardust will hit the streets in the coming days to ensure voters are fully aware of the party's policies: ''Sexual education curriculum, ensuring that there are anti-discrimination protections based on people on the basis of occupation, removing the GST tax on tampons and, at a state level, protecting decriminalisation of sex workers in NSW."
Her campaign for lord mayor of Sydney will be her second election campaign. She ran as a candidate in the seat of Bradfield in the 2009 federal byelection.
Ms Stardust will be joined on the Australian Sex Party's ticket by a former policeman, Andrew Patterson, along with Graeme Dunne, Geoffrey Thomas and Robyn Trigg, as the party's candidates for the City of Sydney.
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