The Mission Statement

The Australian Sex Party is a political response to the sexual needs of Australia in the 21st century. It is an attempt to restore the balance between sexual privacy and sexual publicity that has been severely distorted by morals campaigners and prudish politicians.

Tolerance of  sexual free speech and  sexual expression is one of the main hallmarks of free and democratic nations. Intolerance of these qualities is one of the hallmarks of autocracies, dictatorships and theocracies.

The vast majority of Australians are relaxed and tolerant of a broad spectrum of sexual expression but state and federal governments have increasingly ignored this demographic and pursued policies and legislation that have restricted sexual free speech and expression – often under threat of large fines and even jail sentences.

The Sex Party is fed up with wowserism in Australian parliaments. It is frustrated by the lip service paid to gender equality and sexual identity by the major parties when real and meaningful law reform stalls on factionalism and behind the scenes handshakes with religious leaders.

The Party has registered with the Australian Electoral Commission and has signaled its intention to field candidates at all levels of government over the coming years.

The Policies

Censorship

• Bring about the establishment of a truly national classification scheme which includes a uniform non-violent erotica rating for explicit adult material for all jurisdictions and through all media including the Internet and computer games.

• Introduce an R and X rating for computer games

• To overturn mandatory ISP filtering of the Internet and return Internet censorship to parents and individuals.

• To bring about the development of a national sex education curriculum as a first step in preventing the sexualisation of children.

• Development of a national internet education scheme for parents.

• To enact national anti discrimination laws which make it illegal to unfairly discriminate against people or companies on the basis of job, occupation, profession or calling.

• To bring about equal numbers of women in the Parliament through enabling the Federal Discrimination Act to have jurisdiction extending to political parties.

• To create total equal rights in all areas of the law for gay, lesbian and transsexuals.

• Overturn racist laws that ban Aboriginal people from possessing erotic and sexual media in the Northern Territory.

• Ensure the sexual rights and freedoms of people with a disability and the elderly.

• To enact national pregnancy termination laws along the same lines as divorce law — which allow for legal, no-fault and guilt-free processes for women seeking termination.

• The listing of Viagra, Cialis and other drugs used to treat sexual dysfunction, on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

• Overturn restrictions on aid to overseas family planning organisations that reference abortion.

• Convene a Royal Commission into child sex abuse in the nation’s religious institutions.

• Develop global approaches to tackling child pornography which focus on detection and apprehension of the producers of the material.

• Ensure that the introduction of paid maternity leave is fair and equitable for small businesses.

• Abolish sex slavery and sexual servitude by introducing non morality-based immigration policies that allow bona-fide sex workers to work legally in Australia.

• Ending the tax exempt status for religions.