Yahoo News... There’s a Sex Party in the Senate and you’re invited. Well, not yet there isn’t.
But the minor party is hopeful of clinching the final Senate spot in Victoria at the upcoming election, bringing a libertarian agenda to Australia’s parliament.
The party’s President and Senate candidate Fiona Patten has released her first major ad of the campaign online – and it may contain some adult themes.
The risqué ad spells out the party’s libertarian’s credentials – legalising same-sex marriage, marijuana, and euthanasia, and taxing churches.
Ms Patten says churches are the biggest landowners in the country yet they pay no tax, costing taxpayers about $20 billion a year.
The party also wants marijuana to be regulated and taxed, compulsory relationship and sex education in schools, and the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.
Party president and Victorian Senate candidate Fiona Patten is hoping to win a Senate seat over Family First in the September 7 election.
Ms Patten says her party has averaged about seven per cent of the vote in the last few elections run in Victoria and hopes to improve it.
But she says the minor party has been locked out from a chance in the Senate in all states but Victoria because of Labor preferences.
"Labor's going to the Greens which effectively cuts us out of the chances of a Senate seat in all states," she said during the party's campaign launch in Melbourne on Thursday.
"We do, just because of our own vote, still stand a chance in Victoria.
"We'd certainly like our vote to grow."
The Australian Sex Party is running candidates in each state and territory, with 29 candidates in Victoria alone.
In the seat of Melbourne, the Australian Sex Party will preference Labor over the Greens, who hold the seat by a six per cent margin and are battling Labor to keep it.
The Australia Sex Party will also preference Labor in Corangamite, Australia's most marginal seat held by Labor by 0.3 per cent.
