Sex Party's Senate hopes stunted

THE Australian Sex Party says preference deals have shot down its chances of a Senate seat in all states but Victoria.

Party president and Victorian Senate candidate Fiona Patten is hoping to win a Senate seat over Family First in the September 7 election.

Ms Patten says her party has averaged about seven per cent of the vote in the last few elections run in Victoria and hopes to improve it.

But she says the minor party has been locked out from a chance in the Senate in all states but Victoria because of Labor preferences.

"Labor's going to the Greens which effectively cuts us out of the chances of a Senate seat in all states," she said during the party's campaign launch in Melbourne on Thursday.

"We do, just because of our own vote, still stand a chance in Victoria.

"We'd certainly like our vote to grow."

The Australian Sex Party is running candidates in each state and territory, with 29 candidates in Victoria alone.

In the seat of Melbourne, the Australian Sex Party will preference Labor over the Greens, who hold the seat by a six per cent margin and are battling Labor to keep it.

The Australia Sex Party will also preference Labor in Corangamite, Australia's most marginal seat held by Labor by 0.3 per cent.

The party is running on a platform of tax reform and decriminalisation of all drug use and possession.

Ms Patten says churches are the biggest landowners in the country yet they pay no tax, costing taxpayers about $20 billion a year.

The party also wants marijuana to be regulated and taxed, compulsory relationship and sex education in schools, and the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.

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