Sex Party To Launch Queensland Branch

The Australian Sex Party will use Brisbane Sexpo as a launching pad to sign up members for a Queensland branch. The party signed up over 1,000 members at the last Melbourne Sexpo. Although registering the party before the Queensland state election was out of the question, party convenor Fiona Patten, said she would look at running independent candidates in the electorates of the three major party leaders.

Ms Patten said that censorship, sex education, legal abortion, gay marriage, the sexual rights of the elderly in Queensland nursing homes and age of consent, were major civil liberties and social justice issue for Queenslanders in the coming state election. “Queensland’s censorship laws are far stricter than any other state in Australia and are the same as laws on erotica in totalitarian states like China and Iran, she said. “The directors of large public companies like PBL and Adultshop.com go to jail in Queensland for selling products they can freely distribute in other states and to the rest of the world”.

She said that Queensland was in urgent need of a standardised sex education curriculum with reports that some religious schools In Queensland are teaching the virgin birth as a biological event, creationism and even that ‘God kills a kitten every time someone masturbates’. “Labor, the Conservative parties and even the Greens in Queensland are ignoring these travesties because they don’t want to offend the churches”. Queensland has the second highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the country, after Tasmania.

Queensland was the only state in Australia to discriminate against gay and lesbian people around the age of consent making it two years older than the age for heterosexuals (16 years). The Sex Party was committed to overturning this blatant attack on the rights of this minority group. “Every gay and lesbian person in Queensland should vote away from all the major parties on this basic human rights issue”, she said.

Ms Patten also criticised the leader of the Queensland Greens, Ronan Lee for being totally out of touch with his support base and supporting Pro Life movement policies instead of gay civil rights. She said that the Sex Party had received numerous calls from disaffected Greens voters asking if the party would stand candidates against Mr Lee. "When the Greens in Queensland are headed by a man who scores 97/100 on a recent Festival of Light survey, it’s definitely time for the Australian Sex Party”, she said.

Fiona Patten