Dear Damian,
I am writing to you in a brazen exercise of asking for your support for my tilt at the Senate in this year’s Federal election!
As you may know, I’ve agreed to stand as a candidate for the Australian Sex Party (ASXP). Now I am probably not the first image that comes to mind when one thinks of a Sex Party candidate -- so let me explain …
While I’ve spent most of my career in the corporate world, I’ve always remained vitally interested in politics. Before the last Federal election, we at the Rationalist Society conducted a Secular Scorecard, assessing ten parties and their policies against the 10 Point Plan for a Secular Australia developed and adopted by a range of freethought groups. It was through this exercise that I discovered how the ASXP’s policies align just about perfectly with policies the freethought community has been pursuing for years.
Part of the challenge for the Sex Party will be getting people to go beyond the somewhat provocative name, and actually read the Party’s policies. Over the last six years, the ASXP has matured way beyond its origins and now has a range of policies that are socially progressive, economically prudent and environmentally rational (you can read them here).
Many people don’t realise that the Sex Party won more votes at its electoral inception than the Greens did when they first started out. And in November 2014, the ASXP was successful in getting Party leader Fiona Patten elected to the Victorian parliament. It’s now commonly acknowledged that Patten has achieved more in 18 months since her election than most minor party politicians achieve in a whole term.
I would like to do in the Senate what Fiona Patten has done in the Upper House of the Victorian parliament - work across party lines, with people of commonsense and good will, to achieve positive change to legislation so that our national laws better reflect a modern Australia.
Convinced?
I realise some of you may already be committed to a particular political party. If that’s the case, please feel free to drop me a short “Thanks, but no thanks” note and I won’t bother you any more.
But if you would like to help my campaign, here’s a few ways you could do that:
I am writing to you in a brazen exercise of asking for your support for my tilt at the Senate in this year’s Federal election!
As you may know, I’ve agreed to stand as a candidate for the Australian Sex Party (ASXP). Now I am probably not the first image that comes to mind when one thinks of a Sex Party candidate -- so let me explain …
While I’ve spent most of my career in the corporate world, I’ve always remained vitally interested in politics. Before the last Federal election, we at the Rationalist Society conducted a Secular Scorecard, assessing ten parties and their policies against the 10 Point Plan for a Secular Australia developed and adopted by a range of freethought groups. It was through this exercise that I discovered how the ASXP’s policies align just about perfectly with policies the freethought community has been pursuing for years.
Part of the challenge for the Sex Party will be getting people to go beyond the somewhat provocative name, and actually read the Party’s policies. Over the last six years, the ASXP has matured way beyond its origins and now has a range of policies that are socially progressive, economically prudent and environmentally rational (you can read them here).
Many people don’t realise that the Sex Party won more votes at its electoral inception than the Greens did when they first started out. And in November 2014, the ASXP was successful in getting Party leader Fiona Patten elected to the Victorian parliament. It’s now commonly acknowledged that Patten has achieved more in 18 months since her election than most minor party politicians achieve in a whole term.
I would like to do in the Senate what Fiona Patten has done in the Upper House of the Victorian parliament - work across party lines, with people of commonsense and good will, to achieve positive change to legislation so that our national laws better reflect a modern Australia.
Convinced?
I realise some of you may already be committed to a particular political party. If that’s the case, please feel free to drop me a short “Thanks, but no thanks” note and I won’t bother you any more.
But if you would like to help my campaign, here’s a few ways you could do that:
1. You could ask us to send you some pamphlets that you could use to letterbox your local area. [Note that political pamphlets are not classified as junk mail!]2. Between now and the election, we'll be handing out pamphlets at selected train stations and markets between 8am and 9am in the mornings. You could volunteer to join us at one or more of these “meet the people” sessions.3. About a third of voters are likely to vote before the election. “Pre-poll” stations will be open from about mid June and for us, having people handing out our How To Vote cards (with our policies printed on them) is incredibly important. You could volunteer to help staff these pre-poll stations.4. On election day, 2 July, we will also need as many people as we can muster to help staff polling places. You could volunteer to hand out How To Vote cards on the Big Day.5. If time is precious for you, you could make a donation to my campaign (see here):
- $40 will get our message out to 16,000 people.
- $100 will pay for materials needed at a polling booth.
- $500 will pay for a paid letter-boxing campaign in a local area.
6. And of course, there’s Facebook and Twitter. As a small (but growing) party, we can’t afford TV ads or extensive paid postal campaigns, so we’ll be using social media a lot. Please ‘like’ my Facebook page here, ‘follow’ my Twitter stream here, add your thoughts to the conversation and share, share, share!
Thanks for reading. Thanks (in anticipation) for any support you can give. Thanks for caring about making Australia better than it is.
PS: If you would like us to send you pamphlets, please respond with your postal address.
PPS: If you would like to help us out as a volunteer, please respond with a mobile phone number so we can follow up and organise some times.
PPPS: Watch my 1 minute pitch here.
Thanks so much!
Dr Meredith Doig
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