Why Fiona Patten has dropped ‘Sex’ for ‘Reason’

Australian Sex Party founder Fiona Patten has told Neil Mitchell today’s rebranding is not just a re-naming.

She wants it to be the start of a movement.

• April 4: When Neil Mitchell listeners first learnt of a name changing brewing

Now known as the Reason Party, Ms Patten said she’s taken inspiration from French president Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! party.

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She doesn’t share Neil Mitchell’s concern that dropping the word ‘Sex’ will cost the party at the ballot box.

“The name (Sex Party) did get us attention … and one hopes that Reason will get attention in certainly what seems a very unreasonable time in politics.”

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Click PLAY here to hear her Australia Day/Wattle Day idea