Australian Sex Party registration cancelled in the ACT

I travelled to Melbourne in 2014 to campaign for it in Victoria. Besides Fiona, Robbie, and Jorian, who bothered to come to Canberra to campaign for us? Having received a vote of 8%, and receiving public funding of over 30K, why was I not fully reimbursed for the campaign? Where did the 20K go that was promised to the ACT? As the Acting Agent for the party, why was the money earned in the ACT directed to Melbourne? I think it is time that the truth of the most successful minor party in the ACT was told properly, and that the spurious allegations made against me, particularly by the then President of the party – a complete skid mark, were corrected. Some of my dearest volunteers moved and went along with the name change to Reason. Two-years later, the party is still not registered. What assistance is HQ giving to those members who worked so hard for the Sex Party ACT in 2016? Why did the federal candidate Meredith Doig leave? Is Reason actually a party, or is it a political collective designed to promote one Independent? It’s time that the truth was told.

Steven Bailey – ACT candidate in this year’s federal election.

I think it might be time to tell the truth about this story. I just happened to come across it. This article is totally inaccurate, not due to a lack of journalistic prowess, but due to the truth not being told. As the party’s Secretary, Leader in the ACT, and Lead Candidate, I can tell you that the Sex Party ACT was not deregistered due to a lack of members; I held the details of at least 250 members. Doesn’t anyone find it coincidental that we ran out of members just as the National Executive undemocratically, and selfishly destroyed the brand that I had worked three-years to build, and then put us in a winning position in the 2016 ACT elections?

As the person who registered the party in the ACT in 2015, and then lead the party into winning territory during the 2016 election, I can say with confidence that the party was not deregistered due to bureaucracy. The Sex Party was deregistered due to political pressure. Does anyone honestly think that other ACT minor parties currently have in excess of 100 members?

What? No Sun-Ripened Warm Tomato Party? 🙂 A lot of people might not be aware that in that first ACT self-government election in 1989 the National Party also stood, the only time they have ever contested an election in the ACT state or federal. When Liberal leader Trevor Kaine was asked about it he replied “What National Party?”