Australians To Get New Sex Party

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @06:32AM from the it's-about-time dept.

No, not that kind of sex party, a political party. The Australian Sex Party will be launched in Melbourne on Thursday as an alternative to moral campaigners and prudish politicians. Fiona Patten, who is head of the national adult retail and entertainment lobby group the Eros Association, said the trigger had been the government's decision to place a mandatory filter on the Internet. "This filter actually blacklists any adult site so it means that material which is absolutely legal for an adult to buy in a newsagency in Australia, they will be prohibited from viewing it online," Patten said. I'm not sure how effective they will be, but I'm sure they'll have the best conventions ever.

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Re:I have been thinking about getting into politic by Anonymous Coward · 2008-11-18 16:52 · Score: 1, Insightful

It's mildly amusing I guess, but basically just an accident of history. They've never made any secret of their "conservative"/"right-wing" nature.
I find it even more amusing that the two major US political parties have names that are essentially synonyms of each other (Democrats vs Republicans), and that the two parties appear to have completely swapped positions and supporter-demographics since the US Civil War.