I must admit, I’ve been quite looking forward to reading up on the Australian Sports Party, because ever since I heard that they had (possibly) won a Senate seat last year, I couldn’t help but wonder what sort of representation sport truly needed in Australia that it wasn’t already getting? As a nation, we seem obsessed with sports – though, admittedly, more with watching them than playing them.
Then, this morning, before I even had a chance to start looking at my blog for the day, my Facebook feed helpfully presented me with a petition about the Sports Party, which apparently likes to display topless women and make sexist jokes as part of their advertising. Oh dear. While I am, in fact, more disposed to be amused by this than offended by it, I have to admit, it’s pretty sad that a political party in this century could think that this would be a good way to get attention. Do they honestly think this will lead to people taking them seriously? And has it even occurred to them that this sort of advertising implicitly tells women ‘nope, you aren’t the people we are representing. You are – if sufficiently attractive – the prize for the people we are representing’.
Anyway, let’s have a gander at who they are sending votes towards with their group voting ticket, shall we?
