Reason party
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| Party leader | Fiona Patten |
| founding | 2009 (as Australian Sex Party) |
| Headquarters | 100 Bell St, Coburg , VIC , 3058 |
| Alignment |
Freedom rights , progressivism , secular liberalism , legalization of drugs |
| Colours) | turquoise |
| Victorian Legislative Council |
1/40 |
| Number of members | > 500 |
| Website | reasonvic.org.au |
Reason Party until early 2018 Australian Sex Party ( ASP , dt. Australian Sex Party ) is an Australian party . It was founded in 2009 in response to the alleged increasing influence of religious groups in politics. The party was founded with the support of the Eros Association, a lobbying organization for the sex industry . The party leader is Fiona Patten , who is also the managing director of the Eros Association. Patten describes the Reason Party as a party of freedom rights . In 2014 and 2018, Patten was elected to the Upper House of Victoria Parliament.
elections
Australian sex party
By-elections 2009
The party first appeared in November 2009 in the House by-elections in Higgins and Bradfield. In both constituencies it came to over three percent of the first preferences.
General election 2010
In the 2010 general election , the party competed in 6 of the 150 constituencies of the House of Representatives and in all states (except Tasmania ) and in the Northern Territory . In the Senate elections, there were 250,000 first preferences for the ASP, corresponding to 2.04% of the vote. It became the fifth largest party. She narrowly failed in Victoria at a Senate seat. After the election, the party leader declared that the sex party was "now the largest of the small parties":
We've polled better than the Greens did in their first federal election and believe that our vision of Australia as the most socially progressive country in the world is equal to the Greens environmental messages 20 years ago.
While the Sex Party did not win a seat, the Greens were able to win a Senate seat for the first time in all states thanks to their secondary preferences.
Parliamentary elections 2013
In the 2013 general election , the Sex Party put candidates in all states for the Senate election and in 36 constituencies for the House election.
Elections in Victoria
In the elections to the Upper House of the Victoria Parliament on November 27, 2010, the party received 1.9% of the vote. In 2011 by-elections in Broadmeadows and Niddrie , the ASP accounted for 5 and 8% of the vote, in Melbourne in 2012 6.6%. In the Lyndhurst by-election , the party won 8.4%. In the parliamentary elections on November 29, 2014, the party achieved 2.63%, winning its first seat in the upper house.
General election 2016
In the 2016 general election , the Sex Party joined the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party in several states .
Reason party
Elections in Victoria
In the election on November 24, 2018, the party received 0.36% of the vote in the lower house and 1.37% of the vote in the upper house. The seat in the upper house was successfully defended.
Program
Political observers rated the Reason Party as libertarian . It campaigns against internet censorship and instead supports a national classification system for internet content. The Reason Party advocates the legalization of abortion, gay rights, passive euthanasia, and the legalization of cannabis and other drugs.
criticism
The party's close relationship with the sex industry is viewed critically in the media, particularly its close association with the Eros Association. In part, the program of the Reason Party is directly geared towards the interests of the sex industry. For example, the Reason Party is in favor of legalizing Spice , which is mainly sold in sex shops .
Web links
- Official website of the Reason Party
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-sex-party-to-become-the-reason-party-20170821-gy185f.html
- ↑ Australian Sex Party launches on Thursday ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sex flirts with politics: Herald Sun November 16, 2008
- ^ Eros Association - About Us
- ↑ Sex Party hopes to make history and win an Upper House seat in state election
- ↑ Parliament 'needs a sex party': The Australian 6 November 2009
- ^ Pole dancer aims for Nelson's old seat . English. Online at News.smh.com.au October 28, 2009 (accessed October 15, 2010)
- ^ Virtual Tally Room . English. Online at results.aec.gov.au (accessed October 21, 2010)
- ^ Virtual Tally Room . English. Online at results.aec.gov.au (accessed October 21, 2010)
- ↑ First Preferences for the Senate - 2010 federal election: AEC ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Australian Sex Party does well: AustralianNews.net August 24, 2010 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Australian Sex Party picks up votes: Herald Sun August 24, 2010
- ^ Sex Party Now The Major Minor Party in Australian Politics. ASP, August 23, 2010; archived from the original on March 2, 2012 ; accessed on February 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Greens win seats in every state: SMH 23 August 2010
- ↑ 2010 election Senate preference flow results: ABC
- ↑ Sex party turns up heat in Vic politics
- ↑ Official by-election outcome still days away: Yahoo News 23 July 2012
- ^ State Election 2014 results
- ^ Paul Syvret: Australian Sex Party a dark horse in federal politics , The Courier-Mail . December 8, 2009. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
- ^ Australian Sex Party Federal Policies . Australian sex party. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
- ^ Political party or lobby group? The dark side of the Australian Sex Party: The Conversation 31 July 2012
- ↑ Industry association forms Sex Party: Australian Sex Party website August 25, 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WA Bans on Synthetic Cannabinoids May Go Up in Smoke: Australian Sex Party ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Eros backs drug removal: The Border Mail June 10, 2013
- ↑ Synthetic cannabis: even regular drug users don't trust it: The Conversation 18 June 2013
- ↑ Synthetic drug bans can encourage harmful mutations, say Greens: The Age June 11, 2013
- ↑ Synthetic cannabis: prevalence of use among offenders, perception of risk and negative side effects experienced ( memento of the original of July 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
