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Sex party takes anti-spin position |
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Written by Smh.com.au
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Friday, 20 August 2010 17:42 |
The major parties have attempted to brainwash voters with mindless slogans during an election campaign that was light on substance and heavy on spin, the Australian Sex Party says.
Fiona Patten, the party's leader, said phrases like "stop the boats", "moving forward", "great big new tax" and "yes we will" were a blatant attempt to brainwash voters.
"At the core of the appalling sloganeering has been an assumption on both sides of politics that the Australian people needed to be brainwashed," she said in a statement on the eve of the election.
"It's patronising and dangerous.
"It borders on dictatorship-style politics and is devoid of any vision."
Ms Patten said Labor's National Broadband Network was the closest the campaign got to "real policy".
"But then they took the vision side of it away with a sinister censorship plan to filter the internet," she said.
Ms Patten said the Australian Sex Party wanted to make the nation the "most socially progressive country in the world".
"We are the party of the outsider ...
"Our candidates will never be found on the Queen's Birthday honours list or at the prime minster's cocktail party."
The party's policies include legalising voluntary euthanasia and same-sex marriage, introducing an R and X rating for computer games and taxing religions.
It also wants to bring about the development of a national sex education curriculum and list Viagra, Cialis and other drugs used to treat sexual dysfunction on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Source: Smh.com.au
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