Australian Sex Party Announces Victorian Election Team

AUSTRALIA—The Australian Sex Party has announced that it will contest 24 lower house seats in Victoria at the forthcoming federal election, and that party’s president, Fiona Patten (pictured), will head the Senate ticket. Seats being contested range from Melbourne and most metro areas, to many of the regional areas where the Sex Party polled surprisingly well in the 2010 Senate election. Candidates come from a wide variety of backgrounds and include scientists, warehouse managers, swimming teachers, students, small business owners, social workers and musicians. Patten said that following an average vote of 7 percent in the past four Victorian State by elections, the party was in a strong position to influence the outcome of a few lower house seats. “We’re engaged in a social battle to hold the line against religious parties who want to deny Australians a range of freedoms,” she said. “The two major parties don’t particularly care about these issues as long as they get the preference flows that they want. Abortion, regulating and taxing marijuana, euthanasia and proper taxation of the church are all issues that the Sex Party wants to see debated in the federal parliament as part of our basic human and civil rights.” In 2010, Patten was engaged in a tussle with now DLP Senator, John Madigan, for the last Senate seat in Victoria. She was beaten by only a few thousand votes. “Since then," she said, “Senator Madigan has made abortion his main focus of activity. If Family First or the DLP win the last Senate seat in Victoria again, I predict that they will hold the next government to ransom by seeking to criminalize abortion around Australia. A vote for the Sex Party is the best way of stopping this from happening". She said her team was confident and enthusiastic. "The number of lower house candidates has increased from three to 24, since the last federal election. We are building a base for Australia’s number one civil liberties party." For more information about the Australian Sex Party, go here. The Sex Party’s candidate list by electorates is: Batman: Lianna Sliwczynski Bendigo: Charlie Crutchfield Calwell: Nevena Spirovska Corangamite: Jayden Millard Deakin: Stephen Barber Dunkley: Eloise Palmi Gellibrand: Allan Cashion Gippsland: Douglas Leitch Gorton: Rhiannon Hunter Holt: Lachlan Smith Indi: Helma Aschenbrenner Isaacs: Laith Grahan Jagajaga: Nick Wallis Lalor: Luzio Grossi LaTrobe: Martin Leahy Mallee: Amy Mulcahy Maribyrnong: Amy Myers McEwen: Vicki Nash McMillan: Ben Staggard Melbourne: James Mangisi Melbourne Ports: Melissa Star Murray: Tristram Chellew Scullin: Nathan Rolph Wills: Adrian Trajstman