Queenslanders will have the opportunity to vote for Australia’s most libertarian party at the next state election.

At the last federal election, the Sex Party came in a creditable fifth in the Queensland Senate vote. Sex Party preferences which placed the Liberals just ahead of the Shooters Party, were responsible for the Liberals winning the last Senate seat. The Sex Party outpolled 14 other established parties like One Nation and the Australian Democrats.

Queensland coordinator, Rory Killen, said that party is holding an open meeting on the Gold Coast today to provide more information about the Sex Party and its intentions for the up coming Queensland election.

“We will provide a political balance to the three religious parties who would contest the next state election. We want to see religion treated like any other business when it comes to tax breaks and other concessions that they get”, he said. “We also want to see the state government open an enquiry into child sexual abuse in religious institutions in the state. Political parties like Family First and the Christian Democrats trade off their religious appeal but they never comment or try to explain how and why it is that the churches in Australia have bred over 500 convicted paedophiles”.

Mr Killen said that he was keen to find out where Bob Katter’s Australia Party stood on personal freedoms of a sexual and gender nature. “Mr Katter has outlined a number of personal freedoms which are being encroached upon by the nanny state, some of which we agree with him on. It would be disappointing if his new party was against allowing adults the right to buy X rated films and adult magazines in Queensland.”

Mr Killen, an openly gay man, said he wanted to meet with Mr Katter to discuss his backward walk to Burke and a better deal for gay and lesbian voters in Queensland. He said the party’s Queensland platform would be unveiled at the launches.

National party convenor Fiona Patten is attending the meeting and hopes to meet potential candidates. “The Gold Coast is a progressive region and I think that we will strike a chord with many locals who are sick and tired of nanny state politics. I reckon that as the only civil liberties party in Queensland we will find some great people on the Coast to run as candidates.”

Sex Party Queensland meeting details:

Gold Coast - Thursday 16th June at 6pm, Surfers Rowers, 150 Bundall Rd, Bundall