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Patten Emerging

The Weekly Review by Peter Wilmoth
From a party with a name that has invoked sniggers to one that needs to be taken seriously, the Australian Sex Party now has a powerful voice. That voice is Fiona Patten, just four months into her new role as a member of Victoria’s Upper House.
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Candidate Blog

Standing Up and Giving a Fuck
by Alex Chevallier

I was looking at our How To Vote card today. It's almost an unreal experience to see your own face on something like that, and realising that what you're doing is something so very important. Standing up for your beliefs in the hope of making a significant change. It's something that not very many people get to do in their life. And me? This is the second time I've stood up to let my voice be counted.

Obama-marijuana censorship threatens ABC credibility: Sex Party

Dr John Jiggens

On the tenth of February the ABC published on its website a Fact Check of a claim made by Barack Obama that ‘marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol’.

Is marijuana less dangerous than alcohol, as Barack Obama claims? [ABC Fact Check]

This Fact Check did not even look at the number of deaths attributed to the two drugs, the main reason people say cannabis is safer than alcohol, before concluding Obama’s claims were ‘unsubstantiated’.

New Zealand Drug Regulation Leaves Australia For Dead

New Zealand’s new drug laws are already showing a marked reduction in harm across the country according to one NZ MP. Labour’s Associate Health Spokesperson, Iain Lees-Galloway, told Channel 10’s The Project on Wednesday night, that, “The reports from the emergency departments are that fewer young people are experiencing harmful effects and that’s because our legislation has allowed us to get the harmful stuff off the shelves.”

New Zealand’s Psychoactive Substances Act passed with an overwhelming majority last year (119 of 120 MPs supporting it) and there are now 170 places in NZ where adults can buy 41 tested strains of “legal high”, mimicking the effects of marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy.

Book Review: Soaring

By Ross Ritzgerald

Drawing on classic themes of sex, betrayal, death and metamorphosis, Ross Fitzgerald has created an enthralling contemporary mythology in Soaring.

This daring novel moves between Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia, and Ireland, with its cast of flamboyant misfits playing out the eternal search for love and passion. Soaring was a former winner of the Eros Association Book of the Year Award. The protagonists are all based on real people’s lives albeit minor celebrities - although we are not at liberty to reveal who they are. Rodney is a hang-glider and merchant of erotica; Rebekah is a 19 year old Alcoholic's Anonymous member, father unknown and Michael is a maverick motorcycling priest (and no, it not Father Bob!). Using Greek mythology, like the Myth of Pandion, to explore the forces that pull people into often tragic and compulsive relationships and situations, Dr Ross creates a very experimental genre and one where few writers have dared to tread.

Visit www.rossfitzgerald.com/books/soaring/ to purchase.

Book Review: Roxanne

By E.N. Stewart

Roxanne is Australia’s version of Bergen - if anyone has been watching this excellent TV series from Denmark.

This political bodice-ripper from E N Stewart traces the rise of a female politician, who sexually beguiles all who come across her, on her way to the top job.

Said to be set in a fictional eastern European democracy, the lead character does bear some resemblance to any number of female state MPs in Australia.

And we can’t help thinking that E N Stewart is a bit reminiscent of E L James, the author of Fifty Shades of Grey, although the former is most definitely Australian.

Bondage and discipline highlight both books and both authors are quite reclusive types.

This novel is well written and guarantees graphic sex scenes through all the political machinations and mindsets. Not for your grandmother (although Granny sites appear to be well patronised these days) but also not for the politically naive. This book is written by someone who understands politics as well as they understand sex.

How to buy: Roxanne by E.N. Stewart is published by Authorhouse and is available through Amazon, Authorhouse and Barnes and Noble.

Backstage Politics

Backstage Politics Tired of the same old party politics? The factions, the boring back room boys and the same old slogans?

Phillip Adams’ classic compilation of 50 years of his engagement in Australian politics will hook you in from the first few pages and see you chuckling your way through a unique and definitive political analysis. Phillip Adams is one of the most eclectic and wide ranging political commentators we have and he explores people’s political beliefs and motives using anecdotes and quotes in a way that no one else does.

Quarterly Essay

Quartlery Essay If ever anyone needed a reason to tax the church, call for a Royal Commission into their affairs and under understand why they have attacked the sex industry for so long and so hard ….David Marr’s story in the latest edition of Quarterly Essay is it. A fascinating and appalling tale of sexual abuse, cover ups and leaden personalities all woven together with the tears and heartbreak of parents and friends who have had to pick up the pieces of priestly perversion.

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