The Australian Sex Party will field identical twins in the Victorian State Election this Saturday, in what is believed to be a first for the state and possibly for the nation.  Rory and Tom Killen are 25 year old candidates for the respective seats of Melbourne and Mordialloc.  Tom is a computer games developer and Rory is a geology student at Melbourne University.

Tom said that it was Rory who first joined the Sex Party for its sexual rights agenda but when he saw the anti censorship policies that the party had as well, he was in. “As a computer game developer I’m outraged that Australia still doesn’t have an R rating for games and that socially conservative politicians in their 50s and 60s can kill off the entertainment agenda for an entire generation of younger Australians”, he said. I'm a social libertarian fighting for sex and gender issues and for the right of adults to make adult decisions for themselves. And there's two of me."

Rory, who has worked for the retail arm of Oxfam and as an activist for Amnesty International, said he was passionate about the equal rights agenda of the Sex Party. “Having a party field one third of its candidates as out gay and lesbian says more about equality than any number of policy documents”, he said. “I also liked the fact that this was a real voice for younger Australians and that our policies wouldn’t be watered down by men in suits.”

The twins say that if one is elected the other could quiet easily fill in without anyone knowing. “Being an identical twin in the Parliament raises all sorts of interesting issues in terms of voting, where face recognition is really all that matters. It would be dead easy to make some mischief”, they said.