WINNING

a senate seat in your first attempt in a minor party is a huge challenge, but it's not one Ipswich resident Desiree Gibson will shy away from.

After all, being shy is not something you would associate with someone putting their hand up to run as a candidate for The Australian Sex Party.

The Ipswich mother-of-four and small business manager says she is looking forward to hitting the streets and campaigning hard in the lead up to the August 21 federal election.

She said her chances of election are good if people saw behind the word “sex” in the party's name and had a look at their policies.

“We have a wide range of policies – on things like censorship, sex education, child welfare – and if people look up what we stand for, they'll see we are very serious,” she said.

“I became involved because I saw what the party stood for and couldn't sit around and do nothing, so I decided to stand up and give it a go.

“I'm just an everyday mother of four who is passionate about protecting things like our children, privacy and education.”

She said her four children and fiance are supportive of her campaign, which was launched on Thursday at a Brisbane art gallery with Queensland senate candidate Tim Sheen.

The 32-year-old has managed the Maison Amour adult store on Downs Street in North Ipswich for the past three years. Some of the major policies the party will push are making censorship in the state on par with the rest of the country, and focusing on sex education in schools.

The party also supports same sex marriages, is calling for a Royal Commission into child sex abuse in the nation's religious institutions and wants to establish a global approach to tackling child pornography.

Source: The Queensland Times